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Pedro Castillo
obtained the majority of the votes in the Peruvian presidential elections last Sunday, adding 50.168% of the votes with just 0.328% left to count, a distance that his rival, the right-wing
Keiko Fujimori
, will not be able to overcome.
This was confirmed this Friday by data from the
National Office of Electoral Processes
(ONPE).
The
National Electoral Jury
(JNE) has yet to proclaim the winner of the elections, which it will not do until the numerous petitions to suppress votes promoted by both
Fujimori
and
Castillo's
party
are reviewed
.
This result was expected for days, although the
slow count of the minutes
observed by the controllers of the table, as well as by the authorities of the
National Office of Electoral Processes
(ONPE), prevented reaching the figure until this Friday.
The distance in votes between the two is 58,490 votes, equivalent to 0.332% of the census, and therefore it is not possible for
Fujimori to
regain that advantage.
The remaining votes to be computed correspond to 284 minutes that are being reviewed by the
regional
Special Electoral Juries
(JEE) for various
blackouts
,
challenges
,
material errors
or
lack of the
corresponding
signatures
, among other matters.
Voting annulment
This result does not guarantee that
Castillo will
obtain victory in the elections, since several claims to annul votes presented before the JNE, the only authority with the capacity to name the winner of the contest, have yet to be analyzed.
Fujimori
and his political organization
Fuerza Popular
denounced the existence of apparent irregularities and "table fraud" in hundreds of minutes (about 800) in order to remove them from the count, while
Castillo
did the same with a few dozen.
Now the various JEE that have received those challenge requests, many of which arrived out of date, will now have to analyze the complaints one by one and decide whether to accept taking those votes from the official count.
This process is expected to take between one and two weeks to complete, between challenges, analysis and appeals that may be raised, before the JNE names a winner of the elections.
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