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Peru ‘, tension on the presidential elections. Fujimori: “The result will not be legitimate if all the appeals are not examined”

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The candidate of the conservative party in the presidential elections of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, said that the result of the elections will not be legitimate if the ballots of all the seats on which an appeal has been lodged are not reviewed. He said this at a press conference, accompanied by a team of lawyers who in turn announced that if the Electoral Tribunal (JNE) does not agree to consider further appeals, a “habeas data” action will be presented which would oblige access. to the content of the ballot boxes under discussion.

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“Article 61 of the procedural code states that habeas data protects the right of access to information in any public body, it is a fundamental right that the electoral authorities are denying us”, said the constitutional lawyer Domingo Garcia Belaunde. Fujimori’s “Fuerza Popular” party presented 946 requests for nullity out of 1,119 seats for an estimated total of around 250,000 votes.

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At the end of the full ballot of the ballots, the candidate of the left party “Peru ‘Libre, Pedro Castillo, registers an advantage of about 44 thousand ballots over the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, in her third attempt to reach the presidency. again the decision of the JNE on the hundreds of appeals presented by the contenders and accepted by the electoral authority. According to media reconstructions, the high number of dossiers, mostly presented by Keiko, will make it possible to formalize the outcome of the vote not before the end of the month. In percentage terms the final tally assigns the candidate of “Peru ‘Libre” 50.125 per cent of the valid votes against the 49.875 per cent of the votes obtained by Fujimori. In nominal terms Castillo received a total of 8,835 .579 votes against the 8,791,521 obtained by the candidate of Fuerza Popular.

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The outgoing president, Francisco Sagasti, has made an appeal to remain calm and have confidence in the electoral authorities. “At this moment it is important to keep calm, tranquility and trust in the institutions: we must not rush into it, let alone talk about fraud”, said Sagasti. According to the president, the entire electoral process respected the indications of the international observers of the OSA according to which, the president said, both the first and the second round were held “without shadows and without problems”. According to local analysts, the appeals should push the proclamation of the vote not before the end of the current month. Experts also seem to increasingly discard the hypothesis of a reversal of the result and that the “massive” frauds mentioned by the leader of the People’s Force are credited.

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