Lima.- The maximum deadline to officially proclaim the new president-elect of Peru is mid-July, a spokesperson for the National Jury of Elections (JNE) reiterated this Monday, adding that a recount of votes from the second electoral round has been ordered in three cities abroad due to observations.
The spokesperson for the highest electoral court in Peru, Grecia Rentería, informed in a press conference that the “maximum deadline for proclamation would be mid-July” next, approximately two weeks before the swearing-in to office and the start of the new 2026-2031 government term.
Currently, the JNE is awaiting the resolution of 1,661 voting records observed at polling stations on the day of the presidential runoff, which were sent to the special electoral juries (JEE) for their evaluation and resolution.
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Rentería explained that after receiving the observed record, if the observation “is not overcome in the comparison, we ask that the voting ballots be sent.”
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In that case, they call for a vote recount hearing within a period of three days, and then grant another three days for the competing political parties to appeal that result, a legal procedure that delays the closing of the final count of the runoff election.
The spokesperson explained that, to date, 1,493 records have already been resolved and 175 have moved to a vote recount, of which 15 have already had the public recount hearing and another 83 hearings are scheduled to take place.
Rentería detailed that there are three polling stations abroad that have moved to the vote recount, which are Asunción (Paraguay), Washington (United States), and Florence (Italy), two of which already have a hearing scheduled.
A week after the second electoral round in Peru, the total vote count is at 98.593% of the ballots, which gives 50.051% to the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and 49.949% to the left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez.
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Fujimori’s lead is 18,478 votes over the Juntos por el Perú candidate, who, due to the narrow margin, had requested a full recount of the vote to give the result greater legitimacy, which the Fujimorista party Fuerza Popular rejected.
Precisely, the vote of Peruvians abroad was mostly for Fujimori, as it was in Lima and several cities on the country’s coast, while the voters for Sánchez, who ran on behalf of the imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), were especially in the rural regions and the south of the territory.
