Peru Electoral Authority Calls for Audit of Election Results

Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) on Saturday called for a “comprehensive and thorough IT audit” of the results of the 12 April parliamentary elections.

Final results from the first round remain uncertain, with counting still incomplete at 97.5% of ballots. No clear candidate has yet emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori in the June runoff.

The JNE said an independent audit was needed “as a concrete and decisive step to strengthen the transparency, integrity and reliability of the election results”.

Leftist lawmaker Roberto Sanchez and ultraconservative candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga remain locked in a close race for second place, separated by about 28,000 votes, with more than one million disputed ballots under review.

(reuters, su)