On Monday, over 52,000 Peruvian citizens went to 13 polling stations in San Juan de Miraflores, Lurín, and Pachacamac, after being unable to vote on Sunday due to a delay in the delivery of election materials.

The decision to hold an additional election day sets a precedent in the organization of national elections. The delay in the delivery of the materials prevented the initial opening of the polling stations, prompting the direct intervention of the relevant authorities.

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Many citizens prioritized fulfilling their mandatory voting obligation to avoid fines and return to their work responsibilities. “We are waiting to vote and we want to be served quickly because we have to go to work,” declared a voter at the Señor de los Milagros school.

Fortunato, who was accompanying his son, noted that “the ballots didn’t arrive yesterday, they arrived today, but there aren’t enough poll workers, not all of them,” reflecting logistical problems in setting up the polling stations.

Lidia Miranda stated that “most of us work and this hurts us; we lost time yesterday because, out of necessity, we also have to work on Sunday.”

The exceptional extension was also implemented at the consulates in Patterson and Orlando, in the United States, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry confirmed.

More than 27.3 million Peruvians were called to the 2026 general elections to elect authorities for the 2026-2031 term, in a scenario with eight presidents in ten years.

The text reads, “WE CONTINUE SUPPORTING CITIZENS IN THIS ELECTORAL DAY. In the framework of the ‘Democratic Elections without Violence’ campaign, our commissioners and rights promotion volunteers are deployed nationwide, actively accompanying this electoral day.”

The Peruvian elections will continue today, by decision of the National Elections Board (JNE), amid logistical problems.

The JNE secretary, Yesica Clavijo, announced that the board requested the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to provide the necessary support so that the schools serving as polling stations are available to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) to set up the voting tables, and that the Armed Forces and the Police provide security.

The JNE ordered that the processing of results continue at the counting centers and on the ONPE website, and that the ban on electoral propaganda in the areas of the 211 polling stations remain in effect this Monday.

Meanwhile, the flawed distribution of materials and equipment to polling stations sparked a campaign by various political sectors, mostly on the right, such as the Fujimori party, whose deputy secretary general, Miguel Torres, said that the head of the ONPE, Piero Crovetto, should resign.

The same demand was made by the neoliberal presidential candidate and hopeful for the June 7 runoff election, Rafael López-Aliaga, who accused Crovetto of orchestrating fraud against him through the supposedly deliberate disarray of the 211 polling stations, similar to what he and Fujimori alleged after their electoral defeat in 2021.

Both then pressured for the removal of the ONPE head, but were unsuccessful, as he can only be dismissed by the National Board of Justice, currently sympathetic to the conservative forces that appointed its new members, and which last night proposed impeachment proceedings against Crovetto for the problems that occurred this past Sunday.

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