Pedro Castillo declared himself the winner against Keiko Fujimori, before the end of the count

The candidate of Free Peru for the Presidency of the Andean country, Pedro Castillo, said on Tuesday that according to a “report” from officials of his party, you already have the “official count” of votes, and was “imposed” during the elections, thus marking itself as winner of the second round of the Peruvian presidential elections.

This was highlighted in a new intervention in front of his supporters in Lima, in which he also called on the electoral authorities not to “smear” the will of the Peruvian people and demanded that his supporters “do not fall into the trap of provocation”.

According to the official results of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Castillo leads the poll with 50.2%While Fujimori currently holds 49.7%, with nearly 99% of polls scrutinized, a difference of just over 71,000 votes.

Likewise, the left-wing candidate assured that his future government will be “respectful of democracy and the current Constitution“As well as a” government with financial and economic stability. “

“There are certain tips like the rise of the dollar, which will go up a few more points tomorrow, the cost of bread, chicken, the family basket. This is a lie, what is happening is that there is some uncertainty, that the people no longer believe it, and that is why I must tell you that I have just had conversations with the national business community where he shows his support for the people, ”he said.

Castillo also thanked who they are “the watchmen of the popular will”, thus reiterating a request formulated Monday after the denunciation of his rival, the candidate of the Popular Force, Keiko Fujimori, of “table fraud”.

“I come here not only to express my gratitude, but also my appreciation to the men and women of this country who have stood up here and abroad, to the brothers who are outside the country who have mobilized for the democracy ”, he added in this regard, as reported by the Peruvian newspaper Trade.

On the other hand, he expressed “in the name of the Peruvian people” his greeting “to the personalities of the different countries” who had expressed “the greetings to the Peruvian people, the greeting to us”.

“From now on greeting and appreciation at an embassys and the governments of Latin America and other countries sending their greetings to the Peruvian people, ”said the candidate.

With information from the agency DPA and AP

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