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“Peru is on track to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality).”
The evidence shows Peru is not on track to achieve SDG 5 by 2030. Recent UN and independent assessments describe persistent structural gaps, a need to accelerate progress, and a stagnating trend rather than a trajectory consistent with full achievement. Citing gains in a few indicators does not overcome explicit assessments that Peru remains off track, and late-2025 legal changes further weakened the outlook.
“The European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) said that Peru’s proposed judicial reforms threaten judicial independence.”
Official Venice Commission opinions support the claim. The Commission said Peru’s proposed reforms would weaken guarantees of judicial independence, seriously endanger judges’ and prosecutors’ independence, and risk political influence over the judiciary. The only important caveat is that these warnings concerned a specific reform package, not every reform proposal in Peru.
“A proposal would reorganize the Judiciary of Peru and allow the President of Peru to remove judges deemed "traitors to the homeland."”
The available evidence supports this as an accurate description of a real draft reform in Peru. Multiple high-authority sources report that the proposal would reorganize judicial institutions and let the president decree the removal of judges or prosecutors once Congress has declared them “traitors to the homeland.” The main caveat is that this remained a proposal, not enacted law, as of early 2026.
“A proposal would grant total immunity to the President of Peru and members of the Congress of Peru for crimes committed previously.”
The available evidence does not support this description of the proposal. Recent official reporting from Peru’s Congress indicates the restored immunity proposal for legislators excludes crimes committed before election and is not a blanket shield. No cited source substantiates a proposal granting retroactive immunity to the President, and describing the measure as “total immunity” misstates a procedural protection as full impunity.
“Roberto Sánchez's vote increments in the 2026 Peruvian general election, between 63.3% and 91.3% of counted actas, display a statistically anomalous linear pattern that is inconsistent with natural demographic variation.”
No source in the available evidence presents the statistical analysis, increment series, or anomaly test that this claim treats as established fact. Multiple credible outlets — including the EU observer mission, AFP, and MercoPress — attribute Roberto Sánchez's vote gains during the cited window to the well-documented compositional effect of late-arriving rural and Andean ballot tallies, which is a textbook example of natural demographic variation, not an anomaly inconsistent with it.