505 sources spanning 2011–2026
General elections were held in Peru on 12 April 2026 with a run-off on 7 June 2026. The presidential elections will elect the president and the vice presidents, while the congressional elections will elect members of the Congress of Peru, which will return to being a bicameral legislature with a 60-seat Senate and 130-seat Chamber of Deputies. The last president, José Jerí, was removed from office in February 2026 by Congress. Right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori...

Keiko Fujimori limps into a runoff she should have dominated — proof that Peru's right can fracture faster than its left.

In which thirty-five presidential candidates, a word in Quechua, and the phrase 'bicameral legislature' all turn out to mean the same thing.

Close results and fraud allegations matter less than the institutional collapse that made them inevitable.
