[News] Francisco Sagasti: Talking about an upcoming Havana-Caracas-Lima

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https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-57888579

 

 

This July 28 is the immovable date of the change of command in Peru, and Francisco Sagasti, the fourth president in five years of political turmoil, still has no successor. At least not if we stick to formality. According to the count of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Pedro Castillo, the candidate of a party that defines itself as Marxist and Leninist, won the second round of elections on June 6 by a little more than 44 thousand votes difference against Keiko. Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. The distance between the two is barely 0.23 percent of the total votes.

 

And although a dozen international observation missions concluded that the voting day was fair and democratic, Fujimori denounced fraud and accused the government of covering it up.

 

While his political party, Fuerza Po[CENSORED]r, presents successive legal appeals that must be resolved before the new Head of State can be officially proclaimed, groups of his sympathizers, which have been joined by far-right movements, are calling for protests and camping abroad. of Congress under posters of "No to Communism" and "Terrorism never again." They recently threw stones at the car of the Minister of Health when he arrived at the Government Palace. President Francisco Sagasti, during his last week in office, perhaps as complex as the first, received BBC News Mundo. This is the dialogue.