the exam ended and Pedro Castillo won

The Peru Free Party, of which Castillo is the candidate, said the gap between the newly elected president and rival Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular was only 44,058 votes.

The review lasted for nine days because Peru Libre and Fuerza Popular presented challenges at the tables, although out of the 940 requested by Keiko Fujimori’s party around 134 were completed within the deadline set by the JNE, which expired on June 9, reported the site Audience eyes.

But all the challenges presented by Fuerza Popular were resolved against him, so these votes were declared valid.

The rarefied atmosphere is also the product of the proposal made in the past few hours by a handful of politicians relevant to Peru to cancel the elections and call new elections, which was rejected by the majority of leaders and scholars. .

Peru entered this electoral process in a political crisis that has seen four presidents and two congresses pass so far during the current five-year period of government, which began with the investiture of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on the 28th. July 2016 and will end on July 28. next july.

This crisis has been compounded by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which in 2020 caused the country to experience the first contraction of its economy in two decades and one of the deepest in the world.