Overview
- Polling stations, which open Sunday at 7 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. local time, will choose a president and a restored two‑chamber Congress with a 60‑seat Senate empowered to remove a president with 40 votes.
- Final pre‑silence surveys put Keiko Fujimori near 15% with rivals clustered in single digits and many voters undecided, making a June 7 runoff the likely next step.
- The second runoff slot is in play for comedian Carlos Álvarez, ultraconservative ex‑Lima mayor Rafael López Aliaga, and media entrepreneur Ricardo Belmont, who are pitching hard‑line crime plans.
- Voters rank public safety as the top issue, with homicides doubling this decade and extortion reports rising fivefold, prompting proposals for anonymous “faceless” judges, the death penalty for certain crimes, and Amazon penal colonies.
- Years of impeachment battles have eroded trust and oversight, and analysts say that weakness has helped Chinese state firms gain influence at the Port of Chancay and over Lima’s electricity distribution.