Keiko Fujimori insisted there was a “fraud” in the elections in Peru

The candidate Keiko Fujimori he insisted this Saturday that there was “fraud“During the presidential ballot in Peru which took place on Sunday, as the ballot progresses slowly in its home stretch, led by leftist Pedro Castillo by around 51,000 votes.

“There is table fraud, table manipulation“”, “there are very serious events in this last stage“Regarding the vote count,” Fujimori said during a meeting with the foreign press, while his chances of winning the second round of the elections seem increasingly reduced.

“I recognize the results, but we have to wait until the end“He promised, insisting that there were irregularities that they would have favored his rival, a rural schoolteacher from Cajamarca (north).

“Here there is no [todavía] winners and losers“Said Fujimori, who assured that”the international left intervenes“During the elections in Peru, alluding to the greetings addressed to Castillo for his ‘victory’ by eminent Latin American leaders, including the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez, and the former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.

“The salute of President Fernández was seen“Lamented the 46-year-old candidate, who is facing her third round of voting.

“If we are winners, I hope they [los de Castillo] Get closerAdded the daughter of the imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). “We will build bridges once the result is over,” he said.

Fujimori’s crusade to overturn thousands of votes this Friday generated a unusual tension when the electoral jury gave him permission to challenge the minutes after the deadline, a measure which was subsequently withdrawn.

After most of Fujimori’s calls to quash the votes were not presented on time, Peru’s highest electoral body intended to grant him an extraordinary extension, who from the left-wing Peru Libre party, of which Castillo is a candidate, has been described as “unconstitutional” and an “threat of coup”.

“There is a clumsy pretext for wanting to do a blow on the part of the jury for the national elections,” he said at a press conference. Dina boluarte, the running mate of the left-wing Castillo party.

For his part, the lawyer Hannibal quirogaPeru Libre’s legal advisor warned that if the mandate was extended, the JNE “would violate the Constitution and the law, creating enormous legal uncertainty”.

“He is thus playing the game of the criminal organization which participated in these elections (Fujimori) and which would have no qualms about dragging the country into civil war so that its interests and privileges are not affected,” Quiroga added. .

The electoral jury under pressure

Great popular pressure arose after the JNE’s decision was leaked to national media, including President Jorge Luis Salas, was intimidated for days by Fujimori supporters concentrated in front of his house to shout “terrorist” at him.

In principle, the four magistrates who are part of the body they had considered accepting all resources to cancel the acts presented by Fujimori (around 800) and by Peru Libre (around 50) until this Friday, after a good part of them had been presented outside the deadline provided for by the electoral regulations.

In total, there are around 200,000 votes that Fujimori intended to overturn., mainly Andean and rural areas where Castillo enjoyed overwhelming support, after denouncing without credible evidence an alleged “systematic fraud” of his rival.

To Fujimori’s complaint The report released by the election observation mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) opposes, who did not find serious irregularities in the elections, but urged the two candidates to wait for the resolution of all appeals in the hands of electoral juries.

Critic for asking for calm

As if that weren’t enough, the Acting President, Francisco sagasti, admitted to having contacted members of the two candidates to ask them to reduce the tension and wait for the results of the count because “the task of a head of state is to keep the country serenity and calm in difficult and complex times”.

Sagasti trusted Mario Vargas Llosa to deliver his message to Fujimori, who was taken by her as interference of the current ruler.

“President Sagasti must not interfere with my legitimate right to defend our votes. He has a constitutional obligation to be impartial and to stay out of the electoral process, ”said Fujimori, who faces a charge of more than 30 years in prison for alleged money laundering.

“The president does not create calm, on the contrary. The court is not even. There are external actors who violate the popular will. We will continue to defend our right to vote, ”he added.

However, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Mario’s son, insisted on an interview with the station RPP What there was nothing improper or unconstitutional about the conversation between Sagasti and his father.

“It is perfectly logical that in this climate any authority has the propensity to act in dialogue with the various personalities of the country in order to be able to calm down”, declared Vargas Llosa.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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