07/19/2021 20:00
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Updated 07/19/2021 20:00
The Peruvian right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori
announced on Monday that she will recognize the results of the presidential ballot
that faced her on June 6 with the leftist Pedro Castillo and that they will be proclaimed in the next few hours by the National Elections Jury (JNE).
"Today I announce that fulfilling my commitments made to all Peruvians ...
I will recognize the results
, because it is what the law and the Constitution that I have sworn to uphold," said Fujimori during a presentation to the press.
The candidate remarked that she will accept the official proclamation despite the fact that, in her opinion,
it is "illegitimate"
because they have "discovered something that is already unobjectionable: Peru Libre (Castillo's party) has stolen thousands of votes from us on the day of the choice".
Fujimori offered this statement shortly after JNE
confirmed that this week it will proclaim
and deliver credentials to the next president of Peru, who according to the official count will be Castillo after winning by just over 44,000 votes difference.
Keiko Fujimori insists on fraud.
Reuters photo
After six weeks of tense waiting, the updated scrutiny of 100% of the minutes of the electoral body (ONPE)
gives the victory to Castillo with 50.12% of the votes compared to 49.87% for the right-wing Keiko Fujimori.
The latter, however, refuses to acknowledge its defeat and denounces an
alleged "fraud"
despite the fact that OAS observers affirmed that the vote was fair.
No fraud
"After the JNE Plenary
unanimously declared the inadmissibility of the 5
[last] appeals presented by the political party [Fujimori] Fuerza Popular [...], the act of proclamation of general results will be drawn up," he said. the agency on your Twitter account.
"Likewise, the JNE will proceed to the immediate organization of
the ceremony for the presentation of credentials
to the corresponding [winning] presidential formula. Said ceremony will be scheduled for this week," he added, without specifying a date.
Castillo obtained 44,263 more votes
than his opponent, according to the updated ONPE vote count, but the four-member JNE has the last word.
Pedro Castillo, the winner.
AP Photo
Fujimori,
who must go to trial for alleged money laundering if he does not win the presidency,
presented numerous challenges to votes and appeals to delay the proclamation of the winner, while his supporters demanded in the streets to annul the ballot and call new elections.
After a five-year period of political upheavals
that led Peru to have three presidents in five days in November 2020
, the country has lived under tension since the ballot due to the delay in officially knowing the winner and the denunciations of Fujimori, who did not provide evidence blunt about the alleged fraud.
The new president must take office on July 28
, the day on which the term of interim president Francisco Sagasti expires and on which Peru commemorates the bicentennial of its independence.
It is the first time in decades that the proclamation
will take place within days of the change of command
.
Usually the name of the new president was announced by the JNE about four weeks before.
Source: AFP and EFE
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