Eduardo Fernández Meyzán, known as Lolin Fernández, a candidate for Governor of Lambayeque by the party Renovación Popular, stated on 2026-08-31 that the current regional administration returned S/.1,000 million to the Public Treasury. ^[1] The sum of unspent funds across the three fiscalized years (2023, 2024, and 2025) totals S/.294.8 million, which is less than one-third of the S/.1,000 million claimed by the candidate. ^[2] According to the 2025 National Census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the province of Arequipa has exactly 1,321,546 registered inhabitants. ^[3] Renzo Salas, a candidate for the provincial mayor of Arequipa by the regional movement Tradición y Futuro, stated on the El Mirador Podcast that approximately 1.5 million people live in the province of Arequipa. ^[4] In fiscal year 2023, the Lambayeque Regional Government received a total Modified Institutional Budget (PIM) of S/.2,283 million, with S/.1,988 million executed, resulting in an 87.1% execution rate. ^[5] In fiscal year 2024, unspent ordinary funds totaled S/.30,882,954, equivalent to a 1.8% non-execution rate of ordinary resources. ^[6] PeruCheck concluded that the claim made by Renzo Salas is inaccurate based on the discrepancy between his figure and the official census data. ^[7] PeruCheck determined that the candidate's figure of 1.5 million is inaccurate because it does not match the official provincial census count of 1,321,546. ^[8]