Peruvian officials confirm that Fujimori and Sanchez will advance | Election News

Candidates will face the election on June 7 after the first vote was marred by administrative errors, allegations of fraud.

Peru’s election officials have confirmed that Keiko Fujimori will face left-wing member of Congress Roberto Sanchez in the country’s presidential election, after a chaotic first vote.

The National Jury of Elections (JNE) of Peru confirmed the results of the first vote on Sunday, with Fujimori taking first place with 17 percent of the vote. He was followed by Sanchez with 12 percent.

The Election Commission also agreed problems and the first vote, which was tampered with calculate the delay and logistics issues. It promised to fix the system before the end of next month.

“We cannot deny that there were many problems and errors in the deployment by the organizing body, ONPE,” JNE President Roberto Burneo said in a press conference.

“We have integrated all the lessons we learned in the first phase and we are strengthening the administration,” he added.

The Electoral Commission said that a committee of local and foreign experts has been set up to ensure that things go smoothly during the election. the second round of voting.

Weaknesses in the first round on April 12 resulted in voting in some places being extended until the next day.

The disruption of the election day showed dissatisfaction and mistrust of the country’s politics and raised issues of fraud among several people.

Election observers acknowledged the disappointment but warned there was no evidence of fraud.

Right-wing candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga, who came in third with 11.9 percent of the vote, has called for the first vote to be cancelled. In a social media post on Sunday, he said he would not accept the results.

“The election fraud in Peru has just ended,” he wrote. “We will not accept the consequences of fraud and corruption.”

The dispute over the first round of voting is the latest incident to highlight Peru’s political crisis, where nine presidents have lost power in the past decade due to political instability. objectionable works and the Congress of the country.

The country’s public prosecutor’s office has announced a series of financial crimes against Sanchez last week, hours after election officials announced they were on their way to the polls.