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2026 Peruvian General Election With a total of more than 35 candidates, the most prominent are the following:
Keiko Fujimori (Popular Force)
The daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori is running again for her fourth consecutive election after finishing in second place in the 2011, 2016, and 2021 elections. Of Fujimorist ideology, she is seen as a right-wing populist, she is against abortion, LGBT marriage, and has been a defender of her father's presidency. She has a history of corruption both personally and within her political party, which led her to be held in preventive detention during the investigations of the Odebrecht case.
Even though he advances to the second round, it is very likely that he will lose again since his figure is rejected by a large part of Peru, having been defeated by a center-left, center-right, and far-left candidate.
Roberto Sánchez Palomino (Together for Peru)
Former Minister of Commerce during the government of Pedro Castillo. He presents himself as a candidate of the conservative extreme left who claims the ousted former president Pedro Castillo, known for attempting a self-coup in 2022. His government platform is described as left-wing populist, progressive, Mariateguist, and in favor of agrarian reform. It is basically a much older left, based more on the Soviet left than on the progressive left.
He has a large base of voters in rural and indigenous sectors who have historically rejected Fujimorism.
Rafael López Aliaga (Popular Renewal)
Also known as Porky, he was the mayor of the Peruvian capital of Lima between 2023 and 2025, yes, the same one who gave the mayorship to Speed during a live stream. He is part of the Madrid Forum along with figures such as José Antonio Kast, Santiago Abascal, Javier Milei, and he is the candidate who is supported by Trump in this election. a member of Opus Dei, regards himself as a "social Christian", saying that he maintains celibacy through daily self-flagellation with a chain cilice and thinking of the Virgin Mary.
He has been identified as someone from the extreme right and opposes abortion, sex change, and claims the security methods implemented by Bukele. Rafael has an investigation for alleged money laundering which is still ongoing.
Jorge Nieto (Party of Good Government)
The former defense minister of the center-right government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski presents himself with a reformist, progressive, and social-liberal government platform to get Peru out of the political crisis. It is seen as centrist, but its voter base ranges from center-left to left. It has pending cases for bribery within the framework of the Odebrecht case.
Ricardo Belmont (OBRAS)
At 80 years of age, he presents himself with a platform of humanist, nationalist, popular, and anti-Fujimorist government. His voter base and his party hover between the center and the center-left.
Other prominent candidates outside of the top 5
- Alfonso Lopéz Chau (Ahora Nacion) Position: Center-left.
- Carlos Álvarez (Country of All) Position: Center.
- Marisol Peréz Tello (First the People) Position: Center
- Carlos Espá (SíCreo) Position: Right-wing.
- César Acuña (Alliance for Progress) Position: Center-right.
- Enrique Valderrama (APRA) Position: Right-wing.
- Mario Vizcarra (Peru First) Position: Center.
- Vladimir Cerrón (Free Peru) Position: Far-left.
- José Williams (Advance Country) Position: Right-wing.
- Napoleón Becerra (Workers and Entrepreneurs Party) Position: Left. (This candidate died before the elections, yet he still managed to get more than 10,000 votes.)
Political Background:
Presidents of Peru since 2016: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-18 ), Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020), Manuel Merino (5 days in 2020), Francisco Sagasti (2020-2021), Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), Dina Boluarte (2022-2025), José Jerí (2025-2026) and José María Balcazar (2026).
Peru has been in deep political instability since the 2016 elections, where candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski narrowly defeated Keiko Fujimori. During the presidencies of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra, the Congress was dominated by the opposition Popular Force, and opposed many of the actions performed by the presidents. Fujimorists in Congress "earned a reputation as hardline obstructionists for blocking initiatives popular with Peruvians aimed at curbing the nation's rampant corruption" .
After a series of presidential vacancies, the year 2021 arrived, and therefore an election year in Peru. After left-wing presidential candidate Pedro Castillo won the presidency, Keiko Fujimori and her supporters made claims of electoral fraud, leading obstructionist efforts to overturn the election with support of citizens in Lima. Due to broadly interpreted impeachment wording in the Constitution of Peru (1993), Congress can impeach the president on the vague grounds of "moral incapacity". Congress, which had already attempted to impeach Castillo twice, began a third process of impeachment in november 2022. On 7 December 2022, Castillo attempted a self-coup, dissolving Congress as well as the Judiciary bodies, imposing a curfew, and establishing an emergency government. He was arguing that the legislative body, which had obstructed many of his policies. The move was rejected by state institutions and he was removed from office and arrested.
Castillo's vice president, Dina Boluarte, assumed the presidency amid the widespread protests against her government. Following her ascension to the presidency, Boluarte aligned herself with the Congress dominated by Popular Force and Popular Renewal. Boluarte was impeached by Congress in October 2025, and José Jerí assumed the position. However, after only a few months in office, he was removed from office due to undisclosed meetings he held with Chinese businessmen. José María Balcázar of Perú Libre then took over as his successor.
The Election:
With highly polarized elections, several parties have alleged electoral fraud due to the failure to establish polling stations in the capital, Lima, which caused the elections to be delayed and continue into the following day. The second round is scheduled for June 7, 2026, and the provisional results are as follows:
First Round
Candidates who have exceeded 1% of the votes.
| Candidate | Running mates | Party | Political position | % |
| Keiko Fujimori | Luis Galarreta Miki Torres | Popular Force | Right-wing (Fujimorist) | 17.19 |
| Roberto Sánchez | Analí Márquez Brígida Curo | Together for Peru | Center-left to Far-left | 12.07 |
| Rafael Lopéz Aliaga | Norma Yarrow Jhon Ramos Malpica | Popular Renewal | Far-right | 11.85 |
| Jorge Nieto | Susana Charún Carlos León | Party of Good Government | Center | 11.06 |
| Ricardo Belmont | Daniel Barragán Dina Hancco | OBRAS | Center to Center-left | 10.15 |
| Carlos Álvarez | María Chambizea Reyes Diego Guevara Vivando | Country For All | Center | 7.86 |
| Alfonso López Chau | Luis Villanueva Carbajal Ruth Buendía | Ahora Nacion | Center-left | 7.36 |
| Marisol Peréz Tello | Raúl Molina Manuel Ato del Avellanal | First the People | Center | 3.43 |
| Carlos Espá | Alejandro Santa María Melitza Yanzich | SíCreo | Right-wing | 3.39 |
| Fernando Olivera | Elizabeth León Carlos Cuaresma | Front of Hope 2021 | Center | 1.86 |
| José Luna | Cecilia García Raúl Noblecilla | Podemos Perú | Center-right | 1.59 |
| Yohny Lescano | Carmela Jáuregui Vannesa Valles | Popular Cooperation | Left-wing | 1.31 |
| César Acuña | Jessica Rivas Alejandro Soto | Alliance For Progress | Center-right | 1.13 |
Second Round
After a problematic first round amid an electoral crisis sparked by accusations of fraud, including the resignation of the president of the ONPE, Pierro Corvetto, it was announced that the second round will be between Keiko and Sánchez despite the allegations of fraud by Lopez-Aliaga.
Several parties have given their support to their respective candidates in the second round, and they are as follows:
Fujimori
- Carlos Espá (SíCreo)
- Rafael Belaundé Llosa (Popular Liberty)
- Rafael López Aliaga (Popular Renewal)
- Carlos Alvarez (PPT)
- José Williams (AP)
- Former presidents: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Dina Boluarte and José Jeri.
- Marisol Pérez Tello (First the People)
- Ronald Atencio (Venceremos)
- Workers and Entrepreneurs Party
- Alfonso López-Chau (Ahora Nacion)
- Rosario Fernández (Un Camino Diferente)
- Ricardo Belmont (OBRAS)
- Yohny Lescano (CP)
- Antauro Humala (A.N.T.A.U.R.O)
- George Forsyth (We Are Peru)
- Pedro Castillo (former president)
- Jorge Nieto (Party of The Good Government)
- APRA
- Purple Party
- Free Peru
| Candidate | Running mates | Party | Political position | % |
| Keiko Fujimori | Luis Galarreta Miki Torres | Popular Force | Right-wing (Fujimorism) | TBD |
| Roberto Sánchez | Analí Márquez Brígida Curo | Together For Peru | Center left to Far-Left | TBD |
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