Overview
- Partial results, which officials reported Monday with more than half of ballots counted, put Keiko Fujimori near 17%, Rafael López Aliaga around 15%, and Jorge Nieto close to 13%, pointing to a June 7 runoff.
- Election officials reopened 13 polling sites in Lima on Monday after undelivered materials kept at least 15 locations shut on Sunday, leaving tens of thousands unable to vote.
- Police anti-corruption units visited the electoral authority on Sunday and announced Monday the arrest of an ONPE official on suspicion of failing to perform required duties, with probes also targeting a delivery subcontractor.
- The field remains fractured with a record 35 candidates and millions of votes still to count, leaving several contenders clustered for the second-place spot in a race that could still shift at the margins.
- Public safety and trust loom over the campaign, with homicides at roughly 2,600 a year and extortion complaints eight times higher since 2018 according to police figures.