Petitions for annulment and recount by Roberto Sánchez were rejected, candidate asks his supporters for financial contribution to pay fees | Al Vuelo
Also find out that Congress passes law preventing police and military from being prosecuted by ordinary justice
By Pamela Zárate M. | June 12, 2026
FUERZA POPULAR rejects Roberto Sánchez's request and refuses to do a VOTE RECOUNT - YouTube
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Roberto Sánchez tried to take advantage of the flurry of requests for annulment of electoral records between Fuerza Popular and Juntos por el Perú to ask Keiko Fujimori to jointly request a recount of the votes. The fujimorista response was not long in coming, and the oranges quickly shot down the pretensions of Pedro Castillo's heir.
Luis Galarreta, Keiko Fujimori's first vice president, rejected the request and asked that both the norms and the legal framework be respected. Moreover, he stressed that recounts are not done because someone thinks of it, but only in cases provided for by electoral legislation. Oh, but if the one losing were the fujimoristas, they would already be twisting the arms of the electoral authorities. To top it off, JP's annulment requests were rejected by the Jury for failure to pay the fees, which amount to several million, so they only had to "pass the hat."
Sánchez asks his supporters to contribute one, two or three soles to pay the fees so that his annulment requests can proceed. Tough luck, comrade, because times are hard.
Another pro-crime law: Congress passes law preventing police and military from being prosecuted by ordinary justice
The congressional dictatorship continues working overtime before its last legislative period ends. While the country remains distracted counting votes, reviewing electoral records, and surviving the electoral hangover, Congress has just approved one of those nefarious norms that leaves us without hope of finding justice. Now police and military involved in crimes committed during the exercise of their functions can escape ordinary justice and be investigated in the military police jurisdiction.
Translated into simple Spanish: their own institutional peers will have a much more important role in evaluating their responsibilities.
The proposal was approved by a large parliamentary majority, ignoring that small minority that warns the law will seriously affect access to justice in cases of abuses, extrajudicial executions, human rights violations, or interventions where civilians are affected. But Congress seems convinced that Peru's real problem was not insecurity, nor corruption, nor organized crime. It was that civilian judges could still investigate members of the armed forces.
The norm also comes at an extremely delicate moment. We are on the verge of a new government whose outlook only darkens as Congress has already reformed a good part of the rules of the game. And if the Fuerza Popular candidate ends up reaching the Government Palace, she will govern on terrain that her own political bloc and parliamentary allies have helped remodel for years. A terrifying scenario.
Against the clock, Congress approves controversial norm that could encourage allegations of electoral fraud
The Congress of the Republic, in what may be its last plenary session before becoming bicameral on July 28, approved a law that modifies the rules that will govern this year's regional and municipal elections. What some call an irresponsible law that will contribute to generating more instability, suspicions, and give reasons to any sore loser, will allow requests for annulment of elections.
By establishing as a cause for annulment of elections the "serious irregularities detected" in the modification of the law, fraud will be encouraged and anyone could boycott elections if they think they are going to lose or if they don't like the results of regional and municipal elections. The express approval of this norm in Congress in its final hours is only a preview of what will happen in the next five years in the new bicameral congress where the pact already has a majority. May God protect us from the otorongos.
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