After 9 days of voting, Pedro Castillo obtained 44,000 more votes than Keiko Fujimori

In tense weather and after 9 days of examination, the electorate of Peru Responsible for counting the ballots, he finally reported that Pedro Castillo got 44,000 more votes than Keiko Fujimori, with 100% of tables scanned. However, there will be no new President until electoral justice has been rendered on the requests for nullity of tables presented by the two parties.

This Tuesday, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) of Peru concluded the presidential elections of the second round of June 6, and announced that the trade unionist Pedro Castillo obtained just over 44,000 votes on his opponent, the right winger Keiko Fujimori, out of more than 17.6 million valid votes cast. The trade unionist won only 50.12% of the vote.

#ONPEinforma [ACTUALIZACIÓN DE RESULTADOS] Minutes recorded for the formula of the president and vice-presidents at 3:19 p.m. on June 15. pic.twitter.com/dcTwV4kiBq

– ONPE (@ONPE_oficial) June 15, 2021

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Although imposed by a narrow margin, Pedro Castillo will not be proclaimed president of Peru until after the electoral tribunal solve many challenge requests the tables presented by the Fujimori party and their possible remedies, a decision that could take days, exacerbating the political crisis triggered by the fraud allegations and the slowness of the review.

In all, Pedro Castillo of the Peru Free party obtained 50.12% of the vote, for a total of 8,835,579, while Keiko Fujimori of the Popular Force party has 8,791,521. There were 25 million Peruvians qualified to vote in the world, including over 17 million valid votes.

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The difference between the two candidates is only 44,058 votes, what is called a technical print. This narrow margin has served to fuel rumors of recent days about the validity of the elections and the cataract of challenges to electoral justice by both parties.

To the political uncertainty resulting from the marches for and against the candidates in recent weeks is added the worsening of the procedural situation of Fujimori, accused of corruption and whose request for preventive detention by a prosecutor was an ingredient of a surge electoral process.

The prosecutor’s request has raised tensions amid the slowness of the examination, in a country mired in political convulsions and one of the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, where they are counted to date. a total of 2,004,252 infected, 188,921 dead and 1,962,124 cured patients.

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