translated from Spanish: Peru’s Prime Minister Asks to Wait for Official Election Results Before Holding

The Prime Minister of Peru, Violeta Bermudez, asked her compatriots to wait for the official results of the ballot held this Sunday in her country before recognizing the eventual winner of the presidency, contested by the leftist Pedro Castillo and the right-wing Keiko Fujimori.” Let’s wait for the results calmly,” Bermudez told reporters after voting at a Lima.La prime minister reiterated, in this way, the invocation made by both electoral bodies and private organizations that indicate that the results that will be issued as soon as the elections are over will be unofficial and based on polls. Bermudez recalled that the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) will issue its first official report around 23.30 local time (04.30 GMT on Monday). Specialists indicate that even this first report may not be a reflection of the final result, since it will begin with the voting records of the country’s large urban centers. In this regard, the minister said that citizens who do not have “patience” should go “to sleep early” to “have certainty” during monday morning about the winner of the presidential elections. Bermudez also said that The Interim President of Peru, Francisco Sagasti, has indicated that “once it is proclaimed who will assume the destinies” of Peru from 28 July, the members of the current government will be “ready” to begin the meetings of transfer of functions. He added that “beyond the formal transfer, it is essential” that meetings take place to coordinate the continuity of the vaccination campaign against covid-19 that is being carried out in the country. On the other hand, he admitted that during the election day there have been “some incidents,” but he remarked that all are being investigated by the Prosecutor General’s Office.He rejected, in this regard, the aggression suffered by the candidate for vice president of Castillo, Dina Boluarte, who was the victim of harassment and insults from Fujimori’s followers when she went to vote in the Lima district of Pueblo Libre.La prime minister emphasized that “any form of aggression, whether physical or verbal, cannot be admit oneself into democracy.” Let this election day end calmly, there have been minor incidents, but most have come out to cast their responsible vote,” he concluded. A total of 25.2 million Peruvians, almost a million of them abroad, were called this Sunday to vote to elect their next president for the period 2021-2026, between the candidates Castillo and Fujimori.After the closing of the voting, the members of the table will proceed to the counting and registration of the votes, in the presence of the legal representatives of both parties and international observers , after which these registers will be delivered to the offices of the ONPE. The head of the ONPE, Piero Corvetto, has called to wait calmly for the official results, given that the polls of voting intention have shown that both candidates were in a virtual technical tie in the preferences.



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