The official announcement of the result of the second round of the presidential elections held on June 6 in Peru, which is still pending, due to the examination of appeals of the two candidates, may be further delayed after the unexpected resignation of one of the four members of the Electoral Court (JNE), the authority responsible for resolving disputes.
Following his resignation on Wednesday night, the JNE asked the prosecutor’s office yesterday, Thursday, to “urgently” appoint a new temporary member in order to “not to disrupt the completion of the electoral process».
The resignation of elector Luis Arce, who represented the prosecution, means that in the JNE there can no longer be a quorum for the examination of appeals, which have been submitted in the majority by the candidate of the populist right, Keiko Fuchimori.
After the official count of 100% of the ballots, her opponent, the candidate of the radical left Pedro Castillo, 51 years old, educator and trade unionist, leads with 50.12% of the votes, or with a difference of about 44,000 votes. Fuchimori is limited to 49.87%.
The group of the latter does not stop complaining of “fraud” and demanding the cancellation of tens of thousands of ballots.
The JNE in a press release issued a statement stressing that it “rejects” the “offensive expressions of the resigned voter”, who In his resignation letter, he complained that “everything seems to have been decided a long time ago” in favor of Mr Castillo.
Mr Arce “resigned for the sole purpose of paralyzing the current JNE”, denounced Pedro Castillo’s vice-presidential candidate, Dina Bolourte.
«It does great harm to the country“, Said lawyer Anival Torres, a member of the radical left candidate’s legal advisory team.
Perú Libre (“Free Peru”), Mr Castillo’s party, saw in his resignation an attempt to “prevent the announcement” of his candidate ‘s victory, and consequently “to ignore the popular vote, to disrupt democracy and to impose a coup with velvet gloves».
“Luis Arce’s resignation is a frontal attack on the rule of law in order for democracy to fail,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Twitter. Jose Miguel Vivanco.
The Organization of American States (OAS) election observer mission, which described the process as “positive” and without “serious irregularities” after the vote, said in a statement that it “recorded the strange resignation of Prosecutor Louis Arce (…) in at this delicate moment in the electoral process. “
The mission stressed that it will continue its work in Peru until the JNE is declared the winner.
Ms. Fuchimori’s party, the Fuerza Popular (“People’s Power”), said it would ask the OAK to verify the process. as was the case after the opposition’s victory in Bolivia in 2019 was challenged by the opposition.
For the daughter of incumbent former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) the outcome of the election may determine whether or not she is deprived of her freedom: she is in the crosshairs of a corruption case. A prosecutor has asked for a sentence of thirty years in prison for the 46-year-old politician.
Keiko Fuchimori and her team insist on talking about “fraud” even though US diplomacy saw a “free” and “fair” process and although on Tuesday the prime minister, second in the center-right government, Violeta Bermuda, recalled the conclusion of the OAK mission, reiterating that the vote was transparent and “there is no indication that it was rigged.”
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