Peru's runoff election marred by 116 incidents, 72 arrests for electoral crimes

72 individuals detained during electoral process; poll workers and party representatives detained during ballot irregularity investigations.

In a nation where democratic legitimacy has long been contested, Peru's presidential runoff between Roberto Sánchez and Keiko Fujimori became not only a choice between political visions but a test of whether the machinery of democracy itself could hold. More than a hundred criminal incidents and seventy-two arrests marked a day that was meant to resolve division, raising the older and harder question of whether an election marred by irregularities can still produce a result the people trust. The state had prepared extensively — eighteen thousand preventive actions in eleven days — yet the viol

Peru's runoff election marred by 116 incidents, 72 arrests for electoral crimes

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