The president of the National Election Jury (JNE), Roberto Burneourged the Executive Branch to guarantee the delivery of the necessary resources for the “normal development” of the processes scheduled for next year and which include the general elections in April and the regional and council elections that will take place in October.
In statements to the press, upon leaving the Legislative Palace, the head of the highest electoral body warned that there is a deficit of resources for the electoral system made up of the JNE, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) and the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec).
“As a Jury we have been requesting resources to guarantee a normal development of the electoral process and that is not being given to us. The deficit is 553 million soles – in the case of the JNE -; without them we will not be able to execute all the electoral processes during the year. In general elections there is a deficit of more than half of the budget that we need. Therefore, when I say that the electoral processes are at risk it is because there are not the resources to execute them,” he explained.
Along these lines, he urged the Executive Branch and the Congress of the Republic to respond to his request. “The exhortation is for both because the approval of the budget law is where it ultimately has to be seen, in a more political and technical debate, the approval of the resources of all institutions,” he added.
Burneo stressed that the transitional government of José Jerí “must guarantee, among other relevant things, the electoral processes.”
“I trust that there is that will. I was just leaving a meeting with the president of Congress (Fernando Rospigliosi) regarding this and I have found a lot of predisposition, also from the president of the Budget Committee. I trust that they understand our arguments, in fact all our teams are available and supporting the reason for the resources we request, each sol is guaranteed for a purpose,” he continued.
Digital vote
The head of the JNE also reiterated that decisions will be made no later than December 19 on the application of digital voting in the general elections of April 2026. Aside from this, however, he assured that with or without digital voting, the voters’ right to vote is guaranteed.
“The vote of the people is guaranteed with digital voting and without digital voting, that there is no concern that they will stop voting or will not have the opportunity to do so because the digital vote was not executed. The result of the inspection of the digital vote that is being carried out will be on December 19 at the latest. these elections, but the exercise of voting in traditional terms is going to happen yes or yes with digital voting or without digital voting,” he remarked.
“If the digital vote is not guaranteed, it will not be possible to the extent that it has to comply with technical and legal constitutional assumptions so that the exercise of the vote is not questioned. What the Jury is not going to put at stake is confidence in the result of the electoral processes,” he concluded.
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