Behind in the vote count in Peru, Roberto Sánchez's party says it will not respect the election results and calls for a demonstration

Peru's presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez during an interview with Reuters news agency on April 10, 2026
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Candidate Roberto Sánchez's Juntos por el Perú party said it will not respect the final result of the presidential elections due to a "lack of transparency".
With 99% of the polls counted, Sánchez is behind in the vote count against his opponent, Keiko Fujimori, by a difference of around 35 thousand votes, or 0.2 percentage points. The country's electoral body has not yet officially declared a winner.
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The acronym called a demonstration in Lima for next Wednesday (17) and plans other events throughout the week.
To justify the protest, Juntos por el Perú told the country's press that "the citizens' vote was delegitimized" and that it would not respect the official result as it believes it "does not reflect the popular will with absolute transparency".
Last Friday (12), Sánchez asked on his social networks for the review and recount of "all the minutes that the legislation allows to be reviewed", due to the small difference in votes received between him and Keiko Fujimori.
He appealed to Keiko to join the campaign for the review.
Official recount
The JJE (Special Electoral Jury), the highest body in the Peruvian election, said before the second round, on the last day 7, that the official results can be announced more than a month after the vote, after the recount and the judgment of the challenges of the two parties.
The president of the JEE, Roberto Rolando Burneo Bermejo, said that the recount process is time-consuming, and, therefore, estimated that the result may only be released in mid-July, given the proximity of the number of votes for each candidate.
The number of minutes under review is small compared to the total number of votes in Peru - in total, there are 92,700 minutes in the Peruvian electoral system. However, the dispute in the count is so fierce that the revised minutes can redefine the result.
Bermejo also stated that more minutes can be submitted for recounts if the National Elections Jury deems this to be the case.
Recounts can be carried out for different reasons, such as:
The number of electoral ballots does not correspond to the number of voters from that electoral table;
When there is a discrepancy in the number of votes in the minutes and the corresponding ballot box;
When competing parties dispute the result of the minutes and the electoral board accepts the challenge.

Source: G1