With the vote count still at a slow pace in Peru and with the uncertainty regarding the candidate who will face Keiko Fujimori in June in the second round of the presidential elections, conservative Rafael López Aliaga continues to make accusations against the electoral process, which he considers fraudulent. Yesterday, the candidate for Popular Renewal went to social media and offered a reward of 20 thousand Peruvian soles (around R$29 thousand) to anyone who presents evidence of the alleged fraud.
“Peru deserves transparent choices. If you are an ONPE worker, JNE [órgãos oficiais da eleição peruana]or company linked to the electoral process and has true and verifiable information about possible irregularities, fraud or sabotage: I offer a reward of S/. Twenty thousand.”, says the message.
In parallel, his party presented requests for invalid votes and scheduled a march for democracy for next Sunday (19).
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Presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez (Juntos Pelo Peru), who is in second place in the vote count, publicly criticized López Aliaga’s actions and accused him of promoting a climate of instability, according to newspaper El Comercio. “They engage in acts that go against a healthy democratic spirit and against the responsibility of not adding chaos. Calling for an insurgency is nonsense. And it’s not long before they say: ‘Invent something out there and I’ll give them money,'” he said at a press conference.
In the latest update from the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), with 93.23% of the minutes counted, the difference between the two candidates is just over 8 thousand votes. Sánchez, political heir to former president Pedro Castillo, had received 1,884,660 votes until early this morning, equivalent to 11.98% of the valid votes. Aliaga was close behind, with 1,8876,043 votes (11.92%).
Keiko Fujimori, already guaranteed first place and in the second round of the election, has 17% of the votes.
