Peru’s Sánchez Seeks Annulment of Overseas Ballots in Tight Runoff
Sánchez says 307,000 overseas votes were mishandled and could decide the race as Fujimori leads by about 40,000 ballots.
- On Tuesday, presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez said he will refuse to recognize Peru's June 7 election results if officials count ballots cast by Peruvians overseas, alleging improper processing.
- Sanchez filed a petition to reject overseas votes, arguing consulates failed to use a mandatory government scanning app; the Foreign Affairs Ministry authorized direct processing to avoid technical problems encountered in the first round.
- More than 307,000 Peruvians living abroad voted in the runoff, with 65% supporting conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori. With 99.8 per cent of ballots counted, Fujimori holds 50.1 per cent of the vote compared to Sanchez's 49.9 per cent.
- Keiko Fujimori is poised to become the next president, leading by 43,386 votes, though the electoral authority has not officially declared a winner and plans to do so in mid-July.
- The next president will take office on July 28 for a five-year term. Peru has had eight presidents in the past decade, including several removed by Congress amid corruption allegations.
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Progressive candidate Roberto Sánchez questions the calculation of the votes abroad, which gave the victory to his right-wing rivalKeiko Fujimori advantaged the progressive candidate in Peru by the minimum with the count still to be finished The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has finally achieved an insurmountable advantage to win the second round of Peru's presidential elections in the face of the rejection of his rival, the leftist Robert…
The Peruvian electoral authority gave a definitive acceleration this Wednesday to the resolution of the presidential elections, whose second round was held on June 7, and, in addition to rejecting the petition to annul the vote issued abroad that leftist Roberto Sánchez had requested, certified the virtual victory of right-wing Keiko Fujimori.Continue reading...
Left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez denounced this Tuesday, without providing evidence, that there is "a fraud in development" and anticipated that he will not recognize as president of the country his rival, right-wing Keiko Fujimori, who is ahead of him in the vote count of the second presidential round in Peru.At a press conference, Sánchez argued his request to annul the vote abroad because he considered that the electoral norm was violated …
Perú: Roberto Sánchez Condemns Ongoing Electoral Fraud & Calls for Demonstrations
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—During a press conference held Tuesday, Roberto Sánchez, the leftist presidential candidate for Juntos por el Perú (Together for Peru), warned of ongoing fraud within Peru’s electoral system. The politician reaffirmed his decision to reject Keiko Fujimori’s proclamation as president of Perú, citing irregularities detected in the processing of election results from consulates abroad. The leftist politician requested t…
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