Overview
- With more than 27 million voters heading to the polls on Sunday, the government says it will field about 100,000 security personnel, including 45,000 from the armed forces and over 61,000 police, to guard voting sites and materials.
- The ombudsman’s office launched a live monitoring center to track problems such as voter obstruction or disputes in real time and to alert electoral bodies for quick fixes.
- Prosecutors and police carried out nationwide searches tied to alleged irregular state contracts after meetings with former president José Jerí, seizing records from roughly two dozen homes in a traffic-of-influence investigation.
- ONPE’s Claridad portal shows the Patriotic Party and Obras failed to report campaign income or expenses by the March 27 deadline, exposing them to fines and possible loss of public funding.
- The justice ministry this week presented a prison decongestion plan through 2028 that targets low-level offenses, adds 500 prison guards and new facilities, and could involve about 23,700 inmates.