International Declaration in Defense of the Integrity of the Electoral Process in Peru

In a global context marked by the rise of forces that undermine the popular will, baselessly delegitimize electoral results, and promote systematic distrust of representative mechanisms, we consider it essential to express our commitment to the defense of the democratic rights of the Peruvian people.

Every election must be conducted with transparency, full guarantees, and adherence to the law. Electoral institutions must be able to carry out their functions with full autonomy, free from undue pressure —whether from economic, media, or political powers, domestic or foreign— and in strict compliance with established procedures. We reject any strategy aimed at obstructing, delaying, or invalidating legitimate electoral results through campaigns to discredit institutions or through extrajudicial pressure.

Democracy is not reducible to its institutions, but it cannot do without them. Recent experience in various parts of the world —from assaults on government buildings to systematic disinformation campaigns— demonstrates the grave dangers that the unfounded contestation of electoral results poses to democratic coexistence and social peace.

We call on all political and social actors in Peru to refrain from baseless maneuvers and claims that may generate uncertainty, polarization, or violence.

We reaffirm popular sovereignty as a non-negotiable principle and the right of the Peruvian people to determine their own destiny free from external interference. The vote of every citizen must be fully respected. No actor —however powerful, whether inside or outside the country— has the right to override, manipulate, or disregard the verdict of the ballot box. To defend that will is to defend democracy as a conquest of the peoples and self-determination as a fundamental principle of the international order.

Signatories,

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Argentina

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister, Spain

Rafael Correa, former President, Ecuador

Alberto Fernández, former President, Argentina

Jorge Taiana, former Foreign Minister, Argentina

Enrique Santiago, Member of the European Parliament, Spain

Gerardo Pisarello, Member of Parliament, Spain

Carol Proner, lawyer, Brazil

Jeremy Corbyn, former MP, United Kingdom

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former presidential candidate, France

Virgilio Hernandez, Andean Parliamentarian, Ecuador

Paula Coradi – President of PSOL/Brazil

Baltasar Garzon, lawyer, Spain

Marco Enriquez-Ominami, former presidential candidate, Chile

Andres Arauz, former presidential candidate, Ecuador

Veronika Mendoza, former presidential candidate, Peru

Gustavo González Soto, Senator, Uruguay

Manuela D’Avila, Senate candidate, PSOL/Brazil

Taliria Petrone – Federal Deputy for PSOL/Brazil

Cecilia Nicolini, Mercosur parliamentarian, Argentina

Tarcísio Motta – Federal Deputy for PSOL/Brazil

Beatriz Paredes, Senator, Mexico

Guilherme Cortez – State Deputy for PSOL São Paulo/Brazil

Carlos Tomada, former Minister of Labour, Argentina

Paula Nunes – State Deputy for the PSOL Feminist Caucus, São Paulo/Brazil

Matheus Gomes – State Deputy for PSOL Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil

Esteban Silva Cuadra, General Coordinator of the ‘Latin America and the Caribbean Better Off Without FTAs’ Platform, Chile

Flávio Serafini – State Deputy for PSOL, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sônia Meire – Councillor for PSOL, Aracaju, Brazil

Silvia Ferraro – Councillor for PSOL, São Paulo, Brazil

Iza Lourença – PSOL Councillor, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Rafael Michelini, former Senator, Uruguay

Luzineth Pataxó – PSOL Councillor, Pau Brasil, Brazil

Adriana Gerônimo – PSOL Councillor, Fortaleza, Brazil

Chico Alencar – PSOL Member of the Federal Chamber of Deputies, Brazil

Orlando Silva – Federal Deputy for the PCdoB/Brazil

Chico Alencar – Federal Deputy for the PSOL/Brazil

Grazi Oliveira – Councillor for the PSOL, Porto Alegre/Brazil

Pablo Vommaro, Executive Director of CLACSO, Argentina

Tony Wood, Historian, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta, former Minister for Women, Argentina

Oriol Junqueras, former Member of Parliament, Spain

Pilar Cancela, former Secretary of State, Spain

Tariq Ali, writer, Pakistan

Michael Löwy, philosopher, Brazil/France

Cedric Durand, economist, France

Professor Túlio – PSOL councillor in Niterói, Brazil

Julio Fuentes, President of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of State Workers, Argentina

Juan David Correa, former Minister of Culture, writer, editor and journalist, Colombia.

Henrique Vieira – Federal MP for the PSOL, Brazil

David Adler, Progressive International Coordinator, United States

Matias Capeluto, former director of Casa Patria Grande, Argentina

Camilo Lagos, Progresa Foundation, Chile

Laura Arroyo Garate, Director of El Tablero (Canal Red) – Peru/Spain

Jean Jacques Kourliandsky, Fondation Jean Jaurès, France

Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Director of Canal Red, Spain

Pablo Oribe, Secretary-General of the Socialist Party, Uruguay

Claudio Nash, lawyer, Chile

Silvina Romano, researcher, Argentina

Larissa Ramina, lawyer, Brazil

Juarez Tavares, lawyer, Brazil

Emilio Camacho, lawyer, Paraguay

Martin Mosquera, Editor of Jacobin Magazine, Argentina

Luciana Cadahia, philosopher, Colombia

Carlos Enrique Díaz, editor, Argentina

Francesca Savoia, contract professor at the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy