- Thread starter
- Staff
- #1
Dadparvar
Staff member
- Nov 11, 2016
- 10,833
- 0
- 6
Peruvian presidential candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga of the ultra-conservative Renovacion Popular party alleged fraud on Sunday regarding the country’s April 12 general elections and demanded the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) annul the results. This is despite presenting no evidence to support his claims and contradicting the findings of both domestic and international election observers.
With approximately 93 percent of ballots counted by the Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), Keiko Fujimori of the Fuerza Popular party leads with 17.06 percent of valid votes, followed by left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez of Juntos por el Peru with 12 percent and Lopez Aliaga with 11.92 percent. The margin between Sanchez and Lopez Aliaga stands at roughly 10,000 votes, making the fight for the second spot in the June 7 runoff one of the closest in the country’s electoral history.
Lopez Aliaga appeared on Tuesday at a rally outside the JNE headquarters in Lima, where he gave the electoral court 24 hours to declare the elections null and warned he would call for civil insurgence if his demands were not met. He accused electoral authorities of orchestrating a scheme to place a “radical” candidate in the runoff alongside Fujimori, though he offered no documentary or testimonial evidence to support the allegation.
On Wednesday, Renovacion Popular escalated its campaign by posting a public offer on Lopez Aliaga’s verified X account of 20,000 soles (approximately $5,700) to any ONPE, JNE, or election-related company worker who provides verifiable evidence of irregularities, fraud, or sabotage. The party set up a dedicated email address—sabotaje@renovacionpopular.com—to receive submissions, promising confidentiality and anonymity to informants. The offer effectively acknowledged that the party did not possess the evidence necessary to substantiate its own fraud allegations at the time made, and was deleted hours after publication.
Lopez Aliaga also informally requested in a letter to the JNE that the proclamation of the second and third place finishers be suspended, arguing that logistical failures on election day prevented approximately 608,000 citizens in Lima from voting. ONPE’s official figure for affected voters is 55,261 (only a fraction of the number cited by Lopez Aliaga) and the agency has noted that 99.8 percent of polling tables nationwide were installed on Sunday.
Multiple institutions have rejected the fraud narrative. Peru’s Defensoria del Pueblo said there are no factual or legal grounds to allege fraud. The EU Election Observation Mission dismissed the fraud allegations and described the process as “peaceful” despite the logistical failures, and the Asociacion Civil Transparencia confirmed its observers found no evidence of irregularities in vote counting or tally sheet transmission. Fujimori herself called on Lopez Aliaga to present evidence or stop undermining democratic stability, offering her election representatives in aid of Lopez Aliaga’s claims.
Under Peruvian electoral law, the outcome of the second-place dispute will likely be determined by Jurados Electorales Especiales (JEE), which must resolve approximately 5,000 observed or challenged tally sheets (more than five percent of the total) before final results can be proclaimed. Six formal nullity petitions have already been filed before JEE panels in Lima Centro and Lima Oeste, arguing that the voting extension to Monday and the failures in polling table installation violated electoral law and the constitution. The JNE, as the final arbiter, will rule on any appeals. Under Peru’s Ley Organica de Elecciones, an election may only be annulled if irregularities are proven to have materially affected the outcome, a threshold that, based on available evidence, has not been met.
The post Peru candidate alleges election fraud amid tight electoral race appeared first on JURIST - News.
Continue reading...
Note: We don't have any responsibilities about this news. Its been posted here by Feed Reader and we had no controls and checking on it. And because News posted here will be deleted automatically after 21 days, threads are closed so that no one spend time to post and discuss here. You can always check the source and discuss in their site.
With approximately 93 percent of ballots counted by the Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), Keiko Fujimori of the Fuerza Popular party leads with 17.06 percent of valid votes, followed by left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez of Juntos por el Peru with 12 percent and Lopez Aliaga with 11.92 percent. The margin between Sanchez and Lopez Aliaga stands at roughly 10,000 votes, making the fight for the second spot in the June 7 runoff one of the closest in the country’s electoral history.
Lopez Aliaga appeared on Tuesday at a rally outside the JNE headquarters in Lima, where he gave the electoral court 24 hours to declare the elections null and warned he would call for civil insurgence if his demands were not met. He accused electoral authorities of orchestrating a scheme to place a “radical” candidate in the runoff alongside Fujimori, though he offered no documentary or testimonial evidence to support the allegation.
On Wednesday, Renovacion Popular escalated its campaign by posting a public offer on Lopez Aliaga’s verified X account of 20,000 soles (approximately $5,700) to any ONPE, JNE, or election-related company worker who provides verifiable evidence of irregularities, fraud, or sabotage. The party set up a dedicated email address—sabotaje@renovacionpopular.com—to receive submissions, promising confidentiality and anonymity to informants. The offer effectively acknowledged that the party did not possess the evidence necessary to substantiate its own fraud allegations at the time made, and was deleted hours after publication.
Lopez Aliaga also informally requested in a letter to the JNE that the proclamation of the second and third place finishers be suspended, arguing that logistical failures on election day prevented approximately 608,000 citizens in Lima from voting. ONPE’s official figure for affected voters is 55,261 (only a fraction of the number cited by Lopez Aliaga) and the agency has noted that 99.8 percent of polling tables nationwide were installed on Sunday.
Multiple institutions have rejected the fraud narrative. Peru’s Defensoria del Pueblo said there are no factual or legal grounds to allege fraud. The EU Election Observation Mission dismissed the fraud allegations and described the process as “peaceful” despite the logistical failures, and the Asociacion Civil Transparencia confirmed its observers found no evidence of irregularities in vote counting or tally sheet transmission. Fujimori herself called on Lopez Aliaga to present evidence or stop undermining democratic stability, offering her election representatives in aid of Lopez Aliaga’s claims.
Under Peruvian electoral law, the outcome of the second-place dispute will likely be determined by Jurados Electorales Especiales (JEE), which must resolve approximately 5,000 observed or challenged tally sheets (more than five percent of the total) before final results can be proclaimed. Six formal nullity petitions have already been filed before JEE panels in Lima Centro and Lima Oeste, arguing that the voting extension to Monday and the failures in polling table installation violated electoral law and the constitution. The JNE, as the final arbiter, will rule on any appeals. Under Peru’s Ley Organica de Elecciones, an election may only be annulled if irregularities are proven to have materially affected the outcome, a threshold that, based on available evidence, has not been met.
The post Peru candidate alleges election fraud amid tight electoral race appeared first on JURIST - News.
Continue reading...
Note: We don't have any responsibilities about this news. Its been posted here by Feed Reader and we had no controls and checking on it. And because News posted here will be deleted automatically after 21 days, threads are closed so that no one spend time to post and discuss here. You can always check the source and discuss in their site.