On of the stranger things about Sunday’s election in Peru is a law that forbids any congregations. It’s even forbidden to have a church service on that day.
I guess the reason for that is, that voting is obligatory here, which was new to me, coming from Switzerland where it’s voluntary. Many people have to travel in order to get to the place where they are actually registered for voting. If they had anything going on that Sunday, they might not go voting and rather pay the fine. That’s the only sensible reason I can currently think of for such a law.
Update April 4: I learned today, that the actual reason is different. Flavio also mentiones it in his comment. It seems the law was brought for security reasons, specifically because of fear from terror attacks. The church services I know were rescheduled from Sunday morning to Saturday night by the way.