López Aliaga is right to demand these elections to be declared void as this was an outrageous scandal in two acts. First, Corvetto left thousands of Peruvians unable to vote, a failure that is not mere bureaucratic hiccup but an attack on popular sovereignty. To make matters worse, the chief of the EU election observation mission is under U.S. sanctions and another observer endorsed sham elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Under these conditions, this move is the only credible response.
Calling for vote annulment without evidence is a tired far-right regional playbook to delegitimize democratic results they dislike, one Keiko Fujimori herself resorted in 2021. While López Aliaga is entitled to demand accountability for logistical failures that did happen, calling this a rigged election is factually false and democratically reckless. As Jorge Nieto put it, anyone alleging fraud must prove it, or stop, because unsubstantiated accusations only deepen institutional chaos.
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