Dark Posted July 15, 2021 Posted July 15, 2021 The highest instance of the Peruvian electoral court denied 270 requests from Fujimori to annul the votes of Pedro Castillo, the candidate who won at the polls by more than 44,000 votes in the June 6 ballot. As of Monday of this week, only administrative procedures remained for the proclamation of the rural teacher as president-elect, but Keiko Fujimori's lawyers announced Tuesday night that they will present appeals again. Meanwhile, Castillo weaves alliances that allow him a basis to govern, since his competitor will not recognize the results and describes him as "illegitimate president." The professor and left-wing union leader has obtained the support of the main unions of workers and civil organizations that have created the National Front for Democracy and Governance, to defend themselves against conservative politicians and retired military personnel who called for the intervention of the armed forces to prevent "communism." A conversation about Peru: "This crisis is so hard that it is an invitation to change" On June 15, the official vote counted Castillo as the winner with a difference of 44,058 votes over the candidate on the right, but Fujimori presented hundreds of requests to annul polling stations where the rural teacher won en masse. The National Elections Jury spent a month processing the cases: on Monday, the four magistrates of that entity completed the review and publication of resolutions. All the requests were rejected - as unfounded - in the first and second instance. The magistrates found that there was no forgery of signatures, no impersonations of board members, or collusion to fill out minutes as alleged by Fujimori and allies. During that period, Castillo has been recognized as president-elect by the regional governors in an assembly held in Cusco, and by 30 mayors, as well as by the deans of the Medical College of Peru and the College of Medical Technologists, key in the fight against covid-19 pandemic. Castillo needs support in the Legislature, as he ran for president as a guest of the Peru Libre party - a formation led by Marxist-Leninist neurologist Vladimir Cerrón - which has obtained 37 seats, the first minority in a 130-member parliament. After the endorsement in the second round campaign of the former presidential candidate Verónika Mendoza, he will have five votes from the Juntos por el Perú bench, and three from the Purple Party, of the former presidential candidate Julio Guzmán, who has also recognized the professor rural as the winner. Three of the center-right parties with representation in Congress, Po[CENSORED]r Action and the Alliance for Progress -of former candidate César Acuña-, have been fragmented since the 2016 elections and do not vote uniformly. In this context, some support Fujimori's version of “fraud”, and others, such as the regional governor of Cajamarca and the president of Po[CENSORED]r Action, Mesías Guevara, are allies of Castillo. In addition, the parliamentary spokespersons of Peru Libre are working on the formation of a multiparty board of directors in Congress, with the Acuña party and with Somos Peru, which this Wednesday agreed to ally with that purpose. Additionally, the rural professor has met at least a couple of times with former presidential candidate George Forsyth, whose father - retired diplomat Harold Forsyth - has a network of contacts in Lima's elite. The version of Fujimori and his defenders about "irregularities" in the election is fed daily with text messages between his followers and the media, but it is also expressed on the street through a Fujimori shock group called The resistance. At the end of Wednesday afternoon, the mob tried to remove the protection fences of the Government Palace, confronted the police, attacked journalists and stoned and beat up official vehicles of two ministers of the current president, Francisco Sagasti. The mob echoed the statements of Fujimori - and allies - that the outgoing president has sided with Castillo by not requesting an audit of the elections. Forced to negotiate Castillo will need more support to rule. The new ultra-right wing of Po[CENSORED]r Renovation, with 13 members, is an ally of the 24 Fujimori parliamentarians of Fuerza Po[CENSORED]r. The leader of Po[CENSORED]r Renovation, Rafael López Aliaga, has said that his bench will raise an investigative commission on "fraud" in the elections, and described the future government of Castillo as "legal, but illegitimate." The same tone was used by the Fujimori leader on Saturday in a sit-in, challenging the president-elect. “They are going to commit table fraud and we are not going to accept it: we will go to the (Government) Palace with the po[CENSORED]r vote. Let Mr. Castillo listen to me well, this party is just beginning, ”cried the daughter of the autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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