Elections in Peru: with 100% of the debates …

Forty-four thousand votes. It’s the latest difference that gives rural teacher Pedro Castillo the victory over center-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. This was confirmed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) after the counting of the second electoral round on June 6. Castillo, candidate of Peru Libre, won the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori by 50.12% against 49.87% out of 17.6 million valid votes.

With figures confirmed by the final control of the ONPE All that remains is to wait for the proclamation of the National Electoral Jury (JNE), which consecrates Castillo as the new president of Peru.. However, all of Fujimori’s operations are involved in alleged allegations of electoral fraud to prevent this proclamation from happening and yearn for a new call for elections – rejected by the majority of leaders and scholars – that would prolong the political agony that is going on. the country. since the resignation of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in March 2018.

Fujimori’s attempt to resist what would be his third straight defeat in an election ballot is based on the presentation made to the JNE of alleged irregularities in 802 minutes of polling stations in rural areas, where Castillo swept the vote. The dictator’s daughter, supported by figures such as writer Mario Vargas Llosa, demands the cancellation of 200,000 votes, which will allow her to distort the ballot.

So far, the local electoral juries which examined these complaints have already rejected several of them for lack of arguments. The complaints presented by Fujimori appear fragile and are supported in some cases where relatives have been members of certain polling stations or where alterations in the signatures of the minutes are reported.

At the same time, the JNE must also examine complaints lodged by the Peru Libre de Castillo party for other irregularities in the preparation of electoral registers. In principle, the electoral jury indicated that the complaints were lodged outside the legal deadline.

Peru entered this electoral process in its worst political crisis of the last century, which has so far consumed four presidents and two congresses during the current five-year term, which will end on July 28.

This crisis has been exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which plagued the country in 2020 lthe first contraction of its economy in two decades and one of the deepest in the world.