US EditionPeruvians choosing a president from 35-candidate pool in Sunday’s election
Crime fears and corruption dominate as voters choose 35 presidential candidates and a newly restored bicameral Congress, with a June runoff likely.
- Peruvians voted on Thursday in a presidential election featuring 35 candidates, including conservative Keiko Fujimori, with no candidate expected to secure more than 50% of votes and a June runoff virtually assured.
- Surging violent crime, including more than 200 public transportation driver deaths in 2025, has fueled widespread discontent among voters. A national survey found 84% of urban respondents feared becoming victims of crime within 12 months.
- Candidates proposed hardline security measures including megaprisons and reinstating the death penalty. Rafael Aliaga suggested anonymous judges and expelling foreigners, while comedian Carlos proposed consulting Salvador, Denmark, and Singapore on security expertise.
- Mandatory voting for more than 27 million Peruvians aged 18 to 70 determines the electorate, yet fragmentation ensures no candidate secures more than 50% of votes, making the June runoff decisive for aggressive security reform.
- Peru is restoring a bicameral Congress by amending the Constitution to add a 60-member Senate. Researcher Alejandro Boyco warned this power concentration could increase institutional instability and make removing a president easier with only 40 votes.
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Peru's voters face choice of 35 contenders for ninth president in 10 years
Peru's next president is being chosen from a pool of 35 candidates that includes a former minister, a comedian and a political dynasty heiress. The winner of Sunday's election will be the country's ninth president in 10 years. Rising crime…
Presidential elections are taking place in Peru, in Latin America. 35 candidates are vying to become president of a politically fragmented country that has had no fewer than eight different leaders over the past 10 years. Security and corruption dominate the campaigns. Peru is plagued by gang violence, extortion, and hired assassins.
Peru comes to the general elections this Sunday with a persistent political crisis that accumulates eight presidents in almost ten years and with criminality as the country’s greatest concern, which is preparing to choose from among 35 candidates who do not arouse illusion, while there are still open wounds like the more than 50 dead in the protests after the fall of President Pedro Castillo. A decade of political crisis Political volatility com…
The Peruvians will vote on Sunday 12 April for the first round of the presidential election. After 10 years of political crisis where 8 heads of state have succeeded, destitution after destitution, the country is seeking stability. The end of March was the scene of television debates, where personal attacks often prevailed over the proposals. Yet it is still impossible to identify two favourites.
By Jimena De La Quintana, CNN en Español. Peru, like other countries in Latin America, will elect a new leader in 2026. The country will go to the polls amidst the political turmoil that began a decade ago and has already seen eight presidents, a crisis that has accelerated disillusionment with political parties and normalized presidential changes. Peruvians have witnessed governments begin that never finished and Congress change leaders and dec…
Peru will elect a new president and members of Congress on Sunday after a string of political upheavals and scandals in recent years. If none of the record 35 presidential candidates wins more than 50 percent of the vote, a second round will be held on June 7 between the two candidates with the most votes.
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