Voting in Peru: with more than 99% of records scrutinized, Castillo retains his advantage over Fujimori

Professor Pedro Castillo continued on Tuesday to lead the vote count for the presidential elections in Peru, which is progressing slowly without being affected by the “systematic fraud” complaint filed by rival Keiko Fujimori

The castle had 50.25% voices on 49.74% of his opponent, after having scrutinized 99.28% voting tables, but the competition is still open, according to sources from the electoral body (ONPE). The leftist politician leads Fujimori with more than 84,000 votes.

In the coming hours, that margin is expected to narrow as the US votes continue to be counted, mostly in favor of Fujimori., like those in Spain, still awaiting accounting almost in its entirety.

Outside, Keiko has so far obtained the 66.19% votes against 33.8% of its rival, with the 56.8% of these scanned paintings, a difference of 61,000 votes against Castillo.

Although the tally is not yet over and the winner has not been officially confirmed, Castillo spoke to hundreds of supporters in downtown Lima on Tuesday evening, hinting that he was the winner of the elections.

“We will be a government that respects democracy, the current Constitution, and we will create a government with financial and economic stability.Castillo said.

“According to our representatives, we already have the official count of the party, where the people imposed themselves on this feat to which we salute,” he added.

The leftist politician called “to be vigilant on the popular will” and praised those who voted for him against his Fuerza Popular rival, Keiko Fujimori.

“I come here to say to the Peruvian people, not only to express my gratitude, but also my appreciation to the men and women of this country who have risen up here and abroad, to the brothers who are outside the country who have mobilized for democracy, ”he declared.

Close the elections

The last three presidential elections in Peru illustrate the suspense that characterizes the vote count in this South American country, where to meet the winner may take up to 25 days.

The ballot between Castillo Yes Fujimori He then swelled the election squad in which it took over 24 hours to figure out who was going to rule the country for the next five years. Fujimori starred in three of those results, given the current.

The slowness with which the electoral body purifies the results of 90% of the votes goes hand in hand, among others, with the logistics and geography of Peru.

After 90% of the examination, the state body, the The National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), slows down because it begins to depend on the order of arrival of the files scrutinized from rural, jungle and foreign areas.

In the case of Amazon, several documents are transferred by river for lack of roads.

With regard to the votes of voters residing abroad, who a million, Minutes should only be sent by air with a diplomatic representative for “The neutrality of the process.

¿’Remake’ of 2016?

In 2016, the result of the ballot between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took seven days to be officially proclaimed, in a scenario of uncertainty like this Tuesday. The result showed a narrow margin in favor of Kuzcynski, who got 50.12% against 49.88% of Fujimori.

ONPE then ended process the minutes 100% one week after the election, after adding nearly 200 minutes that had been interviewed. The final difference between the two candidates was 0.248 percentage points. Fujimori lost by 42,597 votes difference.

Vote 2011 and 2006

During the 2011 presidential elections between Ollanta humala Yes Keiko Fujimori, the difference was greater (51.4% vs. 48.4%), but The results took 10 days to be formalized.

In 2006, It took 25 days to define the candidate who would vote against Ollanta Humala, winner of the first round.

The ex-president Alain Garcia and the curator Lourdes Flores They fought for this quota, which was defined by a gap in favor of the former president of 0.3%.

García would later win the presidency with 52.62% against 47.38% for Humala. Thus, the ONPE took nine days giving the results for the challenge over 200 minutes.

(With information from AFP)

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