Living in Peru : your everyday companion

(LIP-wb) -- A total of 16,594,824 Peruvian citizens are called to submit their vote at nationwide 4,184 voting stations with a total of 90,000 ballot boxes in tomorrow's regional and municipal elections.

Peru's National Office for Electoral Procedures (ONPE) informed in an official press release that 8,341,021 (50.3%) voters are male and 8,253,803 (49.7%) are female.

The number of first time voters is 480,888 (2,90%) of which 242,225 are women.

The ONPE also informed that 29% of all voters are between 20 and 29 years old; 24.3% are between 30 and 39; 18.1 % between 40 and 49; 12% in their fifties, and 7.2 percent in their sixties.

In Peru voting is mandatory for citizens between 18 and 70 years old. People who don't have a proper attestation of a valid excuse, for example from a doctor or a flight ticket, will have to pay a fine. Citizens older than 70 still have the right to vote but are no longer required.