Peru: López Aliaga Calls for Vote Annulment as Sánchez Narrows Gap

Published APR 15

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Above: Peruvian presidential candidate Rafael Lépez Aliaga addresses his supporters at a protest in Lima on April 14. Image credit: Sebastian Castaneda/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

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, andwhile another observer endorsed sham elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Under these conditions, thisAliaga's move is the only credible response.

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Calling for vote annulment without evidence is a tired far-right regional playbookplay to delegitimize democratic results they dislikeoppose, one Keiko Fujimori herself resorted in 2021. While López Aliaga is entitled to demand accountability for logistical failures that did happentake place, 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 deepenthreaten institutional chaos.