With the count in the presidential run-off election held on June 6th almost complete, Mr Castillo had won 50.2%, a lead of just 70,000 out of 17.5m votes over his conservative opponent, Keiko Fujimori. She claims fraud, but has presented little evidence. International observers found none. The electoral authority has still to adjudicate some 300,000 disputed votes and will take days to arrive at an official result.
Peru has a taste for electing outsiders. But none had as little political experience or knowledge of the world, or stood on such a radical leftist platform as Mr Castillo. In his only previous bid for elected office he stood in 2002 for mayor of a small town in Cajamarca and lost. In mid-March he was little known, although he led a three-month teachers’ strike in 2017. In a fragmented field of 18 candidates in the election’s first round, he topped the ballot, but with just 15% of the total vote.
During the campaign Mr Castillo gained the support of more moderate left-wingers. This week Pedro Francke, one of his new advisers, praised the central bank, promised to respect its autonomy, rejected price and import controls and said mines would face a tax renegotiation rather than nationalisation. Mr Castillo “knows the value of hard work and would never consider policies that would confiscate assets”, says Gonzalo Alegría, a former banker who is another new addition to his team.
Peruvian people is fighting to the teeth to make sure PedroCastilloTe fraudulent voting is overcome
Well... good luck to the Peruvians...
Pero si en Perú los 2 partidos que pasaron son altamente conservadores, diría yo que son los 2 candidatos más conservadores de toda la elección.
Total fraud in this election! If this person with terrorist ties is supposedly winning is because of corruption in the ONPE and JNE. He is not my president!!
In the Peruvian highlands there has been a massive fraud of more than 2 million votes well advised by the Sao Paulo Forum. How can you explain that Mr. Castillo in the last poll prior to the first round of the presidential election didn’t even appear? FRAUD!
In Peru the presidential elections have not been clean and there is clear evidence of fraud on the part of Mr. Castillo in collusion with the National Elections Jury. There are many votes in dispute even for evidence of fraud.
Mentira !!!! fraude en las elecciones de Peru….Fraude de Peru Libre
System of a down
Castillo is not the elected president
OAS observers, they are enjoying themselves in Peru, while thousands of Democrats march peacefully and say no to electoral fraud and a communist party with links to terrorist groups on the bright path.BBCWorld CNN ABC FoxNews washingtonpost nytimes Reuters
Not the president.
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