Tag: Keiko Fujimori

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Peru's elections: Castillo claims victory by around 80,000 votes, Fujimori will challenge the results legally

  

  Leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo, from the Peru Libre party, Wednesday announced he had won the presidential runoff in Peru when votes were still being counted.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 10:14 UTC

  Peru: After over 99% of votes counted, Castillo's narrow win looks imminent, but Fujimori cries there was fraud

  

  Leftwing candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party was leading conservative Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular by 50.253% against 49.747% with 99.282% of the votes counted, according to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) by Wednesday dawn. However, Castillo already addressed his supporters from the balcony of his party's headquarters in Lima and declared himself the winner, ahead of the official count.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Peru: Fujimori slightly ahead but too soon to celebrate – exit polls show otherwise

  

  Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori was slightly ahead of leftist Pedro Castillo Monday dawn as provisional results of Peru's presidential runoff were being announced by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Keiko narrows the gap with leftist Castillo for Peru's presidential runoff

  

  Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori now sitting in jail for human rights violations, closes in on leftist first-round winner Pedro Castillo for Sunday's presidential runoff in Peru, a study showed Thursday.

• Monday, May 31st 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Peruvian presidential candidates exchange heavy verbal fire one week before runoff

  

  While socialist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party insisted he would renegotiate the contracts of large companies that are taking away the country's mining wealth, the conservative Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular accused him of trying to impose a government that will not respect private initiative.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Peru: Motion to impeach President Sagasti fails forlornly in Parliament

  

  An overwhelming majority of Peru's Parliament Thursday voted in plenum against a motion seeking to oust President Francisco Sagasti.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 00:53 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori soars in Peruvian presidential election polls

  

  The latest Peruvian presidential election opinion polls showed the gap between socialist front-runner Pedro Castillo and the conservative Keiko Fujimori is rapidly shrinking ahead of June 6 presidential elections.

• Monday, May 3rd 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Castillo and Fujimori hold first presidential debate leading to Peru's runoff

  

  The presidential debate between both runoff candidates, one of whom will become Peru's new president on June 6, took place Saturday in the North Andean city of Chota.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Peru Libre candidate Pedro Castillo hospitalized with respiratory problems

  

  Peruvian presidential hopeful Pedro Castillo was hospitalized Thursday with a “respiratory decompensation,” his party Peru Libre announced.

• Monday, April 19th 2021 - 21:44 UTC

  Covid-19 cases soar in Peru just days after the elections

  

  Peru's Health Ministry has recorded 433 covid-19 related deaths, bringing the total toll to 57,230 in 13 months, it was announced Monday. Also, 7,131 new infections were detected Sunday, bringing the total to 1,704,757. The steep increase comes days after the country's general elections.