No vamos a parar hasta que haya justicia
En las calles de Lima, Rafael López Aliaga encabezó una marcha hacia el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones alegando fraude electoral, mientras su propio partido había reconocido públicamente los resultados que lo dejaron fuera de la segunda vuelta. Este momento captura una tensión tan antigua como la democracia misma: la distancia entre aceptar las reglas de un juego y aceptar sus resultados. Con la proclamación oficial programada para el 17 de mayo, Perú enfrenta no solo una disputa electoral, sino una pregunta sobre los límites de la disidencia institucional.
- Renovación Popular emitió un comunicado aceptando los resultados del ONPE, pero horas después su propio candidato lideraba una marcha exigiendo que esos mismos resultados fueran revertidos.
- López Aliaga calificó al Jurado Nacional de Elecciones de organización criminal y acusó a su presidente de haber dirigido deliberadamente la elección hacia Fujimori y Sánchez.
- La congresista Norma Yarrow escaló la tensión con una advertencia directa: si Sánchez llegaba a la presidencia, Renovación Popular lo destituiría, evocando la remoción de otro mandatario en 2021.
- El partido presentó treinta denuncias formales por fraude y exigió auditorías de las actas de la serie 900, cuestionando tanto la integridad del proceso como los plazos institucionales.
- Con la proclamación oficial fijada para el domingo, la brecha entre la posición formal del partido y las acciones públicas de su candidato amenaza con desestabilizar la transición electoral peruana.
Rafael López Aliaga marchó un viernes por la tarde a través del Campo de Marte en el distrito limeño de Jesús María, conduciendo a sus seguidores hacia la sede del Jurado Nacional de Elecciones con un mensaje que su propio partido ya había contradicho. Renovación Popular había emitido horas antes un comunicado aceptando los resultados preliminares del ONPE, resultados que dejaban a López Aliaga fuera de la contienda y colocaban a Keiko Fujimori y Roberto Sánchez en la segunda vuelta. Nada de eso detuvo la marcha.
La congresista Norma Yarrow, presente junto al candidato, cuestionó por qué el JNE no había modificado su cronograma y exigió auditorías de las actas de la llamada serie 900, documentos que según el propio conteo electoral habían favorecido a Sánchez. Yarrow también lanzó una advertencia: si Sánchez llegaba a la presidencia en julio, Renovación Popular lo removería del cargo, tal como habían removido a otro mandatario en 2021.
Al llegar a la sede electoral, López Aliaga anunció que su partido había presentado treinta denuncias formales por fraude, acusó al presidente del JNE, Roberto Burneo, de haber dirigido deliberadamente los resultados hacia Fujimori y Sánchez, y le exigió que no proclamara los resultados según lo previsto para el 17 de mayo. Afirmó además que su partido iría al Congreso y asumiría funciones de todas formas, una declaración sin sustento legal claro dado su lugar en los resultados preliminares.
La contradicción era pública e irrefutable: el partido había aceptado formalmente la elección; su candidato lideraba una protesta para revertirla. Lo que quedó expuesto en las calles de Lima fue la distancia que puede existir entre un comunicado de prensa y una multitud exigiendo que se deshaga un resultado electoral.
Rafael López Aliaga marched through the Campo de Marte in Lima's Jesús María district on a Friday afternoon, leading supporters toward Peru's electoral authority with a message his own party had already contradicted. Hours earlier, Renovación Popular—the political vehicle carrying López Aliaga's presidential ambitions—had issued a statement accepting the preliminary election results. Those results, tallied by Peru's National Electoral Office, had eliminated him from contention. The runoff would feature Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular and Roberto Sánchez of Juntos por el Perú. None of this stopped the march.
The National Electoral Jury, Peru's highest electoral body, had announced it would formally proclaim those results on Sunday, May 17th. López Aliaga's march was framed as a response to what he and his supporters characterized as electoral fraud—a narrative that contradicted his party's public position but reflected the candidate's refusal to accept elimination from the race. Congresswoman Norma Yarrow, appearing alongside López Aliaga, questioned why the electoral authority had not altered its timeline and demanded audits of disputed ballot series, particularly the so-called 900 series documents that, according to the electoral office's own count, had favored Sánchez. She also issued a warning directed at Sánchez himself: if he reached the presidency in July, she said, Renovación Popular would remove him from office, just as they had removed another leader in 2021.
At the march, López Aliaga called the electoral jury a criminal organization and told his supporters the institutions wanted to exhaust them into silence. He promised they would not stop until justice prevailed. When the crowd reached the electoral authority's headquarters, López Aliaga announced his party had filed thirty formal complaints alleging fraud. He then addressed Roberto Burneo, the jury's president, directly and with escalating intensity. He accused Burneo of deliberately steering Fujimori and Sánchez into the runoff and of leading Peru toward catastrophe. The candidate demanded Burneo not proclaim the results as scheduled.
The contradiction was stark and public. Renovación Popular's official statement had acknowledged the election results. López Aliaga's march rejected them entirely. The party had committed to accepting the outcome; its presidential candidate was now leading a protest against that very outcome, framing it as fraudulent. López Aliaga concluded by stating that his party would go to Congress and be sworn in regardless—a claim without clear legal foundation given the preliminary results that had eliminated him from the runoff.
With the official proclamation set for May 17th, the scene at the electoral authority's headquarters captured a widening gap between institutional acceptance and political defiance. López Aliaga's march signaled that losing a presidential race would not mean accepting the loss, and that the distance between a party's formal position and its candidate's public actions could be measured in the space between a press release and a crowd of supporters demanding the reversal of an election.
Notable Quotes
The electoral jury is a criminal organization, and the institutions want to exhaust us into silence— Rafael López Aliaga, at the march
You know perfectly well that you are sending Fujimori and Sánchez to the runoff. You are leading Peru to the slaughterhouse— López Aliaga, addressing JNE president Roberto Burneo
The Hearth Conversation Another angle on the story
Why would a party accept results and then have its candidate march against those same results?
Because López Aliaga didn't accept them. The party made a strategic statement, but the candidate was fighting for his political life. Those are two different calculations.
What does he actually want at this point? The results are already counted.
He wants the electoral authority to not proclaim them officially on May 17th. If he can delay or delegitimize the process, maybe something shifts. It's a long shot, but it's the only move he has left.
And the 900 series ballots—what's actually disputed about them?
According to the electoral office's own tally, those ballots favored Sánchez heavily. López Aliaga's supporters are saying they're fraudulent, but they're asking for audits of documents that already exist and have already been counted. It's not clear what an audit would show that the count didn't.
Is there any legal path for him to actually reverse this?
Not really. He filed thirty complaints, but the electoral jury has already certified the count. The proclamation on Sunday is largely ceremonial at this point—it's the formal announcement of what everyone already knows.
So this march is performative?
It's more than that. It's a signal to his supporters that he didn't quit, and it's pressure on the institutions. Whether it works is another question, but the performance itself matters in Peruvian politics.
What happens after May 17th?
The runoff happens. Fujimori and Sánchez face off. López Aliaga's party says they'll go to Congress and be sworn in, which doesn't make much sense given the results, but that's what he said. The real question is whether this delegitimization campaign affects the runoff itself.