Peru deploys thousands of election materials under tight security ahead of presidential runoff
Peruvian electoral authorities have begun the final distribution of voting materials ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff, as the country prepares to choose its next leader.
Gustavo Garcia, Director of Electoral Management, said the third phase of distributing election materials to voting centres in Lima and the neighbouring Callao region was underway.
According to Garcia, 217 trucks are transporting materials for 29,266 voting tables across 2,253 polling centres.
“It was planned for all units to have a global satellite positioning system so we can monitor the location of each one in real time,” he told Viory.
Roberto Burneo, head of the National Elections Jury, said the operation demonstrated the strength and reliability of Peru's electoral system.
“These moments signify the guarantee of democracy, the guarantee that this second-round electoral process will be transparent and completely orderly,” Burneo said.
Peruvians will vote on Sunday in a runoff between Keiko Fujimori of the Popular Force party and left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez of Together for Peru.
Fujimori secured 17.19 percent of the vote in the first round, while Sanchez received 12.03 percent, leaving both candidates seeking support from voters whose preferred contenders were eliminated.
More than 27 million Peruvians are eligible to cast ballots in the election, which will determine the country's president for the 2026–2031 term.
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