The democratic stability of Peru is under siege from the far left. After being surpassed at the polls, the party of the communist candidate and representative of the imprisoned Pedro Castillo, Roberto Sánchez, has initiated a legal offensive against the electoral system to deny their defeat. The main instrument of this strategy is a legal action filed before the Judiciary aimed at nullifying the participation of Peruvians residing abroad.
The spokesperson for the group and former minister, Walter Ayala, confirmed the filing of a habeas corpus lawsuit to annul Resolution No. 90-2026-JN/ONPE, a technical norm that regulated voting abroad during this electoral process. According to Ayala's argument, this provision “should never have existed” and, being supposedly null, “everything falls apart”, falsely claiming that “Roberto Sánchez won in Peru”. With this maneuver, the radical sector seeks to ignore the 65% support that Keiko Fujimori received outside our borders.
Keiko Fujimori
The official figures from ONPE, with 99.033% of the ballots processed, are conclusive and bury the claims of the communist sector:
Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por el Perú): 49.910%, totaling 9,090,392 votes.
The difference in favor of the Fuerza Popular candidate is 32,909 votes, a lead that, according to the secretary general of that group, Luis Galarreta, could ultimately consolidate “between 40 and 45 thousand votes”. Despite the clarity of the numbers, Ayala insists that “that vote is precisely null” because, from his biased perspective, “the normative intangibility has not been respected” since Dina Boluarte called for elections.
Roberto Sánchez
This attack on the electoral system is not isolated. The Special Electoral Jury (JEE) and the National Jury of Elections (JNE) have already declared unfounded all previous resources presented by Juntos por el Perú for lacking evidence of irregularities. Faced with this legal wall, Roberto Sánchez's circle is now attacking the autonomy of the electoral bodies, with Ayala warning that “no institution is free from constitutional control”.
While Keiko Fujimori prepares to return to the country on June 17 with victory practically assured, Sánchez's communism prefers to organize marches and file unfounded lawsuits rather than accept that Peru said "no" to them at the polls. The intention is clear: to annul the vote of those who closely understand what it means to live outside a failed model in an attempt to impose, through judicial means, what they could not win with votes.
