The National Electoral College of Peru has officially declared Pedro Castilla the winner of the presidential elections, according to Reuters.
According to calculations by the National Directorate for Electoral Processes (ONPE), Pedro Castillo, a candidate of a party defined as Marxist and Leninist, won the second round of elections on June 6 by just over 44,000 votes against Keiko Fujimori. daughter of former President Albert Fujimori. The distance between them is only 0.23 percent of the total number of votes. Although a dozen international observation missions concluded that election day was fair and democratic, Fujimori condemned the fraud and accused the government of hiding it.
While his political party, Fuerza Popular, has repeatedly filed an appeal in court, it must be settled before a new head of state can be formally declared, groups of his supporters, joined by far-right movements, have protested and camped. abroad. Congress under the posters “ No Communism“ and never more terrorism.