Presidential election in Peru: no declared winner yet, Fujimorists cry fraud
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Peru, June 12: Pending the results of the second round of the presidential election, supporters of Keiko Fujimori are getting impatient and shouting fraud in the streets of Lima.
AP - Guadalupe Pardo
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A week after the second round of the presidential election, Peru has still not declared the winner.
With 99.92% of the votes counted, it is Pedro Castillo who is in the lead with 50,000 votes ahead of his opponent Keiko Fujimori who disputes this lead.
On Saturday June 12, his supporters mobilized to show him their support.
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With our correspondent in Lima
, Wyloën Munhoz-Boillot
After denouncing a supposed "fraud", the candidate of the right asked Tuesday the invalidation of about 200,000 ballots, in the hope of catching up on her rival, which is unlikely.
"
No to fraud
" chanted yesterday, Saturday June 12, hundreds of supporters of Keiko Fujimori during a march organized in the center of Lima.
A message that could also be read on many signs, like that of Victor, a young man.
“
There was fraud.
There are more than 200,000 disputed votes, but the national electoral jury refuses to annul them when this is what can allow Keiko to win!
"
Through the prensa internacional hoy informed al mundo sobre la dura batalla que estamos dando los peruanos para no caer en manos del comunismo.
Somos a country geopolitically muy important para la izquierda internacional.
Vamos a defender democráticamente todos nuestros votos pic.twitter.com/qz0FdkZylI
- Keiko Fujimori (@KeikoFujimori) June 12, 2021
If some ballot papers contested by Keiko Fujimori have in fact not been verified, it is because the request for their invalidation has not been presented within the legal deadline which is 3 days maximum after the ballot.
As for the accusations of "fraud", they were denied at the start of the week by electoral bodies and international observers.
The second round of the presidential election in Peru between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo was a "positive electoral process" in which "serious irregularities" were not detected, declared Friday (June 11th) the electoral observation mission of Organization of American States (OAS).
"The mission did not detect any serious irregularities", indicates the preliminary report of the group led by the former Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rubén Ramirez (AFP).
In the afternoon, the Fujimorist demonstrators crossed paths with supporters of
Pedro Castillo
.
The situation then became tense.
A few insults erupted, but the important police cordon deployed between the two camps and the appeals for calm from both sides made it possible to avoid clashes.
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: in Peru: citizens' vigils to “defend democracy”
Peru, June 12: Pending the results of the second round of the presidential election, supporters of the two candidates took to the streets of Lima on Saturday.
Here the supporters of the leftist candidate, Pedro Castillo.
AP - Martin Mejia
In the evening, Keïko Fujimori addressed his supporters, again alluding to alleged irregularities in the ballot.
For his part, Pedro Castillo called on his supporters for calm and patience, until the official announcement of the results.
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