Tag: Keiko Fujimori

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Peruvian prosecution to investigate Keiko Fujimori's alleged “disturbing of the vote”

  

  Peru's State Attorney has announced conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is to be investigated for allegedly disturbing the electoral process through the filing of 760 requests for annulment of different polling stations after June 6's presidential runoff.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Yet another setback for Keiko Fujimori's legal effort to become President of Peru

  

  Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE) Tuesday found seven additional appeals from conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori against the outcome of June 6's presidential elections to be unfounded.

• Thursday, June 24th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Peru's Elections Jury finds 10 of Fujimori's appeals to be unfounded

  

  Peru's National Elections Jury (JNE) found on appeal that 10 of the objections raised by presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular were unfounded.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Peruvian judge allows Keiko Fujimori to stay out of jail, for now

  

  Peruvian presidential contender Keiko Fujimori has been allowed to stay out of jail Monday, but the judge's decision bars her from meeting with her closest campaign aides.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Retired military officers call for annulment of Peru's elections as political unrest mounts

  

  Peru's President Francisco Sagasti has ordered the Minister of Defense to investigate the sending of a letter by retired military officers which may imply a breach “to the constitutional order.”

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Peru's fortunes start packing up in case Castillo becomes President

  

  Peru's wealthiest people feel threatened by the likelihood of leftwing Pedro Castillo becoming the next president and have therefore started wiring money abroad, it was reported.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Castillo edged Fujimori by 44,000 votes as counting ends in Peruvian presidential runoff

  

  Peru's electoral authorities have completed counting votes from June 6's presidential runoff, after which left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo was determined to have finished some 44,000 votes ahead of right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Up to three more weeks to know who won Peru's presidential runoff, elections authorities say

  

  Peruvian electoral authorities Monday announced it might take even three more weeks to finally know who won the presidential runoff between the leftist Pedro Castillo and the conservative Keiko Fujimori.

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 10:00 UTC

  Peru's electoral body to rule on Fujimori's appeal Monday

  

  One week after the presidential runoff, leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo edged conservative Keiko Fujimori by around 70,000 votes to become Peru's new President. But he cannot celebrate still until the National Electoral Jury (JNE) rule's on a petition to nullify some 200,000 votes from his opponent.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 23:08 UTC

  Peru: Public Prosecutor requests preventive detention for Keiko Fujimori for failing to comply with probation

  

  The Peruvian public prosecutor's office has requested that conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori be remanded in custody for failing to comply with “the obligations imposed by the Criminal Court of Appeals” by meeting with one of the witnesses in her alleged money laundering trial during a press conference, which she was prohibited from doing. The request is contained in a document circulating since Thursday with the signature of the prosecutor in charge of the Lava Jato case in Peru, José Domingo Pérez.