LIMA, June 9 — Far-left trade unionist Pedro Castillo has cast himself as the winner of Peru’s presidential election, thanking foreign nations for “victory” messages even as election officials said Wednesday the race was not over.
“We will be a government respectful of democracy, of the current constitution, we will... create a government with financial and economic stability,” he told the singing and dancing crowd. As in Peru’s three previous presidential elections, also tightly-run, the tail-end of voting has been slow due to delays in the arrival of votes in Lima from Peru’s rural and jungle areas, and from abroad — where a million of 25 million eligible voters live.
Late Monday, Fujimori alleged “irregularities” and “signs of fraud,” telling a press conference she had evidence of “a clear intention to boycott the popular will.”Prosecutors in Peru have said they want to seek a prison term of more than 30 years for her on charges of taking money from scandal-tainted Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to fund presidential bids in 2011 and 2016. She has already spent 16 months in pretrial detention.
Two million Peruvians have lost their jobs during the pandemic and nearly a third now live in poverty, according to official figures.
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