Peru’s chief prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez has called for the arrest of presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in connection with the corruption case she is investigating. According to CNN, Fujimori rejected the request as absurd: “The prosecutor knows where I live, I have no intention of fleeing,” he said. Perez instead argued that Fujimori violated the restrictions to which it would be subjected to the corruption case that has seen her under investigation since 2018. According to the Andina state news agency, Perez accused Fujimori of violating “the rule of conduct” prohibits you from communicating with witnesses in the case.
Official status is still missing but Pedro Castillo, a high school teacher who has never held public office and left presidential candidate in Peru, would have won the elections against right-wing challenger Keiko Fujimori. According to the latest data from the Peruvian electoral authority Onpe, Castillo would have obtained 50.179% of the votes against 49.821% of the challenger: to separate the two candidates less than 63,000 votes. The turnout in the presidential elections was just over 74%.