THANK GOD FOR THE 2026 PERUVIAN POST-ELECTORAL CRISIS !! First time I ever see in an election's aftermath anything like, after tyrannical forces of evil supposed irremediably confirmed takeover, all of a sudden some kind of divine deus ex machina miracle completely saves the country last minute lol
Being a Spaniard I had to stay quite late that night till the results came in already; I didn't stay long though, given how horrified I was by the fact that it pretty rapidly became abundantly clear that the second round was gonna be almost definitely a matchup between Peru's former last dictator daughter Keiko Fujimori & even more MAGA-like extremist Rafael Aliaga.
BUT, there were 60,000 people who despite arriving on time to their polling stations could not vote, so it was decided to give these 60,000 people extra time to vote till the next day at 6 PM.
& this has been enough to change everything: it will not be Aliaga who qualifies for the second round but instead leftist Roberto Sánchez from the both progressive & democratic socialist coalition Juntos por el Peru, with Fujimori gettting 16.01%, Sánchez 12.01% & Aliaga 11.92%.
But here's what's even better, Aliaga is going full MAGA with fraudulent allegations of mass fraud & of he being the legitimate winner & that the election has been stolen from him, so it's pretty much fully guaranteed he will insist this is a sham & an indefensible farce till the very end & never endorse Fujimori, practically guaranteeing Sánchez's victory therefore.
People should reallly stop talking about Latin American political waves honestly, like they change their minds about whether the use