Union leader Pedro Castillo confirmed as Peru's president-elect
Peru's Electoral Tribunal announced that legal challenges to the nation's recent presidential elections have been reviewed and rejected, thus confirming union leader Pedro Castillo as the nation's president-elect.
The June 6th run-off vote had ended with political outsider Castillo, 51, and his left-wing Free Peru coalition ahead by a narrow margin of 44,000 votes out of over 18 million cast.
The official result had been delayed by challenges from opponent Keiko Fujimori, 46, of the hard-right Popular Force to annul some ballots on claims of fraud, despite little evidence.
The Organization of American States, European Union, Canada, Britain, and the U.S. State Department have all stated that the elections in Peru were clean.
Castillo would take office on July 28 for a five-year term as leader of the nation of 33 million, the world's second largest copper-producer.
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Peruvian President-elect Pedro Castillo and running mate Dina Boluarte celebrate their runoff victory on June 6th.
A series of challenges by hard-right opponent Keiko Fujimori, some involving jailed former intelligence head Vladimiro Montesinos (her father Alberto Fujimori's spymaster during his authoritarian, 1990-2000 rule), were struck down by Peru's Electoral Tribunal today.
Fujimori's unfounded accusations of electoral fraud, which sought to annul results in rural areas where Castillo won handily, have prompted prosecutors to launch an investigation into Fujimori for possible crimes against the right to vote and false statements.
