Tag: Peru elections

• 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.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 08:06 UTC

  Alleged Shining Path attack leaves 18 dead in Peru

  

  A terrorist attack allegedly perpetrated by a column of the Shining Path group has left at least 18 dead in the Peruvian province of Satipo, in the Junín region, in the jungle Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers, it was reported late Monday.

• 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.

• 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.