In Peru, the right-wing candidate, Keiko Fujimori, seems to have given her arm to twist.
After insisting for more than 10 days on an alleged fraud on the part of his rival, the left-wing professor Pedro Castillo, the daughter of the imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, has qualified the tone of his statements.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, published this Sunday, Fujimori reiterated what he had already promised before the elections: that he would
respect the popular will.
"I will accept the results that the National Elections Jury (JNE) decides," he
said.
The JNE is the body that has the last word.
Peru's presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori observes her supporters in Lima, Peru, on June 19, 2021.REUTERS / Gerardo Marin
Although he later insisted that perhaps not enough is being done to know "the truth."
The Popular Force Party candidate continues to wait for the JNE to recognize the motions for annulment that she presented, although the majority arrived after the deadline.
"We ask the Jury not to give us an excuse with the issue of the deadline, if what is sought is to know the truth," he told the aforementioned medium.
Since the official counting of votes by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) ended and gave the victory to the leftist candidate Pedro Castillo, by just over 40,000 ballots, no authority has been able to demonstrate an alleged fraud.
"The mission has not detected serious irregularities,"
says a report by the Organization of American States (OAS).
Fujimori requested the nullity of more than 800 acts, the equivalent of
more than 200,000 votes
from the poorest and most remote areas of Lima, the same ones that supported Castillo.
[The vote count ends in Peru: Pedro Castillo wins the elections but an appeal from Keiko Fujimori delays the proclamation]
On Saturday, thousands of Peruvians marched in support of both candidates amid uncertainty because the official winner of the presidential elections has not been announced.
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The streets of the capital, Lima, were filled with supporters of both candidates who marched through different areas of the historic center.
More than 3,000 police officers watched both groups who were tens of blocks apart and there were no acts of violence.
If Fujimori loses this time, it
will be her third defeat
after unsuccessfully applying in 2011 and 2016. The candidate also faces a prosecution charge for laundering that could lead to 30 years in prison.
With information from El País and AP.