Overview
- Peru’s ONPE ran delegate-based primaries for 37 organizations on December 7, processing votes from 1,206 delegates across 77 tables and publishing live results.
- Acción Popular’s internal vote named Alfredo Barnechea its presidential candidate over Julio Chávez by 37 to 26, according to ONPE’s 100% tally.
- Julio Chávez said he will impugn the Acción Popular result, alleging a “gross fraud” that included the substitution of 28 elected delegates and implicating ONPE; the case now heads to the JNE.
- ONPE rejected JNE observations about Acción Popular’s delegate list, said no fundamental rights were violated, and affirmed it relied on the party’s official primary registry; the JNE will proclaim results on December 15.
- In Chile, the December 14 presidential runoff with mandatory voting will pit José Antonio Kast against Jeannette Jara, with both campaigns courting centrist and previously abstaining voters after a close first round.