Peru's electoral board rejects 23 more appeals by Sánchez's party as Fujimori's win holds

MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Thursday, June 25th 2026 - 06:19 UTC

With 99.88% of the tally sheets processed, Fujimori obtains 50.12% of valid votes against Sánchez's 49.88%, a difference of some 44,453 ballots, the largest recorded during the count

The plenary of Peru's National Jury of Elections (JNE) declared unfounded 23 appeals filed by Juntos por el Perú, the party of left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez, against tally sheets from the presidential runoff, in which right-wing Keiko Fujimori is set to emerge as the winner. The decision shores up a result that, with the count almost complete, can no longer be reversed.

The rejected appeals concerned tally sheets observed in Santiago de Chile, New Jersey (United States) and the Peruvian constituencies of Huancavelica, Ucayali and the Lima district of Ate. They add to an earlier batch in which the JNE had declared unfounded another 24 appeals from the same group. Before that, the Special Electoral Jury of Lima Centro 2 had rejected as inadmissible Sánchez's request to annul the overseas vote —for being filed outside the legal deadline— the appeal with which the result could have been reversed in his favor.