Overview
- Peru’s National Jury of Elections declared permanent session via Resolution No. 0821-2025-JNE, activating weekend and holiday work to keep hearings, deliberations and notifications moving on a tight calendar.
- The Executive published Law No. 32536, an extraordinary change that widens party affiliation windows for the 2026 regional and municipal contests and orders JNE, ONPE and Reniec to regulate its application within 30 days.
- The JNE confirmed 36 presidential slates registered for the April 12 general election and published all government plans on its Electoral Platform, with final admissions due by March 14, 2026.
- The JNE detailed the tacha procedure: any Reniec-registered citizen may challenge an admitted list or candidate within three days, submitting evidence, paying the fee and using an electronic mailbox, with rapid JEE rulings and appeal to the JNE.
- Technical scrutiny is already reshaping lineups as the JEE deemed Renovación Popular’s deputy and Andean Parliament lists inadmissible with a two-day cure period, several parties filed incomplete slates in regions such as Arequipa, and APRA members contested their exclusion in appeals before special electoral juries.