06/06/2021 11:45
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/06/2021 11:45
A total of 25.2 million voters come this Sunday to vote for the next president of Peru for the period 2021-2026, between the candidates
Pedro Castillo
and Keiko Fujimori, after the opening of the voting tables at the national level and in the Foreign.
Castillo asked his fellow citizens to participate this Sunday in the elections with calm and sanity,
respecting the results that the day will bring
and thinking of voting so that "Peru wins."
Castillo expressed himself this way from his home in Tacabamba, in the Andean region of Cajamarca,
during the traditional breakfast
with which Peruvian political candidates offer to the press on each election Sunday together with their families and relatives.
"I call the Peruvian people to sanity and also thank them for giving us the opportunity in this democratic party. Today, above all,
that Peru wins
, above all, no one should be left behind," said the candidate before the media.
Keiko Fujimori at her breakfast with the family.
AFP photo
Dressed in his traditional "chotano" straw and wide-brimmed hat and accompanied by his family (wife, children, parents, brothers-in-law and several of his brothers), Castillo
was calm and satisfied
, "comfortable and happy" for having participated in this electoral process.
He also took advantage of his brief speech to call each and every one of his fellow ranks "to maturity" to address the day, as well as to offer apologies for the "objections, problems and words" said during the campaign that have "hurt someone or open up susceptibilities ".
Around 24.2 million voters will go to vote
at 83,048 polling stations nationwide
, while 997,033 voters are authorized abroad to vote at 3,440 polling stations.
The largest number of tables abroad will
be installed in America (2,253)
and Europe (1,012) while in Asia 146 will have to be installed, in Oceania 24 and in Africa 5 tables.
The beginning of the act of suffrage was scheduled at 7:00 a.m., but the first voting table was installed
at 4:55 a.m.
at the José Carlos Mariátegui school, located in the district of Paucarpata, in the province of Arequipa, the South Andean region of the same name.
Unlike the first electoral round on April 11, the installation of the polling stations, by the polling station members,
is proceeding normally
and without the delays reported on the previous date.
Presidential order
In Lima, the interim president
Francisco Sagasti
was one of the first authorities to vote at the beginning of the electoral process.
After casting their vote, Sagasti urged citizens to come
"calmly to vote"
and to be aware that voting "is a right and an important responsibility to consolidate democracy."
The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) urged younger voters to come early to set up the voting tables in the event that the polling station members chosen for that work do not appear, and to
ensure that the elections are held.
Citizens who fulfill the work of table members, until 7:00 p.m.
(
9:00 p.m.
in Argentina)
when the voting will conclude, will receive 120 soles ($ 30) as an incentive.
After the closing of the voting, the members of the polling station will proceed to count and record the votes
, in the presence of the representatives of both parties
, and with the complete voting registers they will go to deliver them to one of the decentralized offices of the ONPE.
The head of the ONPE, Piero Corvetto, has announced that the first official report of the vote will be known starting at 11:30 p.m. this Sunday (
1.30 on Monday in Argentina
), as the electoral records arrive at the counting centers. .
In that sense, he reiterated the call of the Executive authorities to calmly wait for the official results, given that the voting intention surveys have shown that both applicants are
in a virtual technical tie
in preferences.
Castillo of the left-wing Peru Libre party will cast her vote in her native Cajamarca and then travel to Lima to await the official results, while the right-wing Fujimori
will vote in the afternoon
in the Peruvian capital, where she resides.
Source: EFE
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