LIMA – The right-wing candidate in Peru’s presidential election, Keiko Fujimori, alleged there have been “signs of fraud” in Sunday’s run-off election.
“There is a clear intention to boycott the popular will,” she said without offering detailed evidence.
She made the allegation after her left-wing rival, Pedro Castillo, pulled past her in the vote count.
With 96.8 percent of the votes counted, Castillo has a razor-thin lead of 0.5 percentage points.
In a news conference, Fujimori alleged that there had been a “strategy by Peru Libre, the party of Castillo, to distort and delay the results which reflect the popular will.”
Peru Libre rejected the accusation, tweeting that it had “never resorted to electoral fraud, to the contrary, we’ve always been victims of it.”(BBC)
