Tag: Peru elections

• 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.

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Peru objects to Argentine President's congratulating Castillo before official results announced

  

  The Government of Peru sent a note of protest to Argentina after President Alberto Fernández congratulated Pedro Castillo for his victory before the official election results were announced.

• 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.

• 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 28th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Peru's government extends state of emergency for yet another month as presidential runoff looms over

  

  The government of Peru Thursday decided to extend the current state of emergency, which has been in force since March 2020, for yet another month to bring down the number of covid-19 infections, it was announced. Current restrictions were to end on May 31.