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The vote count ends in Peru with the victory of Pedro Castillo

2021-06-12T03:47:01.570Z


The leftist has an advantage of 62,025 votes over his opponent, Keiko Fujimori, with 100% of the records processed. But Fujimori called for the annulment of more than 200,000 ballots, which could change the outcome. The legal battle can take up to two weeks.


Left-wing professor Pedro Castillo won the elections this Thursday by a margin of only 62,025 votes, with 100% of the minutes processed.

But his rival, Keiko Fujimori, called for the cancellation of more than 200,000 ballots, which could change the result.

The legal battle initiated by Fujimori can last up to two weeks.

This Thursday, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) entered 100% of the voting records in its system and only 0.705% of the total remains to be counted.

Until now, the leftist candidate Pedro Castillo has 50.177% of valid votes against the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, who received 49.823%.

The Fuerza Popular candidate and political heir to former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) has requested the nullity of 802 acts, representing more than 200,000 votes, for alleged irregularities and an alleged attempt at "table fraud" attributed to the party. from Castillo, Free Peru.

Fujimori made the annulment request to the electoral bodies in a press conference in which she was accompanied by the former congressman and collaborator in his campaign Miguel Torres, who is also included like her in the accusation for money laundering and criminal organization presented by the Prosecutor's Office against the candidate and the leadership of Fuerza Popular.

They ask that Fujimori return to prison

Torres' presence at that press conference, held on Wednesday, gave rise to the prosecutor in the case, José Domingo Pérez, to again request the preventive detention of Fujimori for failing to comply with the conditions imposed by the justice when she was released last year, as is maintain contact with a witness.

Fujimori described the prosecutor's request as "absurd", explaining that Torres has been participating with her in the campaign since June last year and is now advising the party on the request for the nullity of 802 voting records.

The annulment of those votes would mean annulling the will of the poorest and most remote areas of Lima, which have supported Castillo.

The National Elections Jury is the body that has the last word.

Fujimori, accused of money laundering

Fujimori faces a prosecutorial request of more than 30 years in prison for alleged money laundering in the financing of his previous electoral campaigns in 2011 and 2016 by Odebrecht and Peruvian companies, a trial that would avoid being elected.

Fujimori's lawyer, Giuliana Loza, trusted that "after this request is notified and we are summoned, the criminal judge will declare it inadmissible, not only because it is unnecessary, but because it lacks any logic."

In the midst of this panorama, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry reported that it has been obliged to deliver a protest note to the Argentine ambassador in Lima for the greeting extended by the president of that country, Alberto Fernández, to Castillo as "president-elect ", despite the fact that the results have not yet been announced by the electoral bodies.

In a message on Twitter, Fernández reported that he contacted Castillo to convey his congratulations and express his desire to unite "in favor of Latin America."

The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and former President Evo Morales, as well as former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joined in the congratulations through social networks.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru recalled that "the final results of the general elections (of) 2021 have not yet been announced by the electoral authorities."

A group of 17 former presidents from America and Spain, all from the right or center-right, also signed a document on Thursday to ask that none of the contenders declare themselves the winner until the Peruvian National Elections Jury confirms their triumph.

With information from Efe, El Comercio and El País.

Source: telemundo

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