Overview
- Peru’s election office, ONPE, is under review as prosecutors added leaked WhatsApp chats to their case after Cuarto Poder published the messages.
- The chats show ONPE officials celebrating Gálaga’s award and saying its technical proposal decided the result even though rival AFE offered a lower price.
- Records cited in the reports say Gálaga won a contract of about S/2.299 million despite AFE’s bid of about S/1.8 million.
- Investigators are examining early‑2026 contracting rules approved inside ONPE that shifted scoring power to internal requester units.
- The case file also flags execution failures, with Gálaga providing only 12 vehicles and 54 of 100 dispatch staff, which pushed ONPE to seek emergency help from firms like Panamundo and Hermes.