Patience wears thin as Peru vote count drags on
Patience wears thin as Peru vote count drags on
Joshua Goodman and Franklin Briceno, Associated Press
Updated 4:31 pm, Wednesday, June 8, 2016
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Patience was wearing thin as ballots in Peru's presidential election continued to trickle in on Wednesday, three days after a contest whose results remained too close to call.
Aides to front-runner Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Wednesday demanded that Peru's top electoral authority speed up the counting. Dozens of supporters of his rival Keiko Fujimori held a demonstration late Tuesday to denounce what they said is fraud, even though neither she nor her aides have expressed similar concerns.
Electoral officials said they hope to wrap up their work on Thursday when the last ballots cast at embassies abroad arrive in Lima.
Most experts said it will be nearly impossible for Fujimori to make up the 41,000 vote difference separating her from Kuczynski, an economist. With 98.5 percent of polling stations counted, Kuczynski had 50.1 percent compared to the 49.9 percent for Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president.
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