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ELECTIONS WITH FINAL PHOTOGRAPH
PEDRO CASTILLO WINS IN PERU: RECOUNTING AN EPIC AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
9 Jun 2021 , 11:43 am .
Coming from deep Peru, Castillo will make his way into the difficult Peruvian institutionality (Photo: Martín Mejía / AP Photo)
According to the calculations of the electoral body, this Wednesday, June 9 at 8 am (Lima time), with 99.79% of the records processed and 98.33% of the records counted, the candidate Pedro Castillo reached 8 million 735 thousand 448 votes for 50,206%, while Keiko Fujimori obtained 8 million 663 thousand 648 for 49,794%.
The difference is minimal, by 0.4 tenths for Castillo, although it could be slightly widened considering that there are rural votes to be counted and given that the vote abroad, favorable to Fujimori, has been counted 100%.
However, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the organizing electoral body, has outlined the existence of acts contested or observed (questioned) by the Peru Libre and Fuerza Popular parties. The figure is 1,260 minutes, of which 457 are contested due to doubts in the vote count.
These will now go to the National Elections Jury (JNE), an autonomous entity of the Peruvian institution, whose responsibility will be to determine the destination of the minutes and votes that are under condition of challenge.
According to some mathematical possibilities, only if this process is carried out in an arbitrary or selective manner against Peru Libre could the electoral balance defined so far be reversed, if there is the annulment of acts favorable to Castillo and the count of acts favorable to Fujimori.
This possibility, latent, but still to be considered remote, comes with the development of the close contest now in jurisdictional instances of the JNE or, in other words, the resolution of the elections through bureaucratic channels.
Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori had signed a commitment to respect the electoral results. However, this Monday, June 7, Fujimori busied himself in denouncing "signs of fraud at the polling stations" during the elections held on Sunday. "A series of irregularities have been occurring that concern us and we believe it is important to show it. There is a clear intention to boycott the popular will," he said.
Fujimori denounced that Castillo would be using the contesting of the minutes to delay the counts and his party assured in the afternoon of the same Monday that 80% of the challenged minutes favor the candidate.
"We call on citizens to help us," Fujimori stressed at a press conference, calling on his supporters to report "irregularities." This unleashed a reaction among his followers on the outskirts of various polling stations in different cities, and a significant number of "complaints" on social media and with the ONPE that have led to new obstacles to the slow "Quick Count" of the Peruvian electoral body.
The presidential elections also deal with the weakness that all the primary subsystems of electoral activity are manual.
Meanwhile, Pedro Castillo, who since Sunday night alerted his followers and table members to remain "vigilant" and organize vigils, on Monday 7 moved to Lima, where he has concentrated his followers on the outskirts of the house of his party, calling on them to "wait patiently" for the continuity of the counts and resolution of challenges.
Since Tuesday night the 8th and after the vote counting abroad, which failed to reverse the trends, the atmosphere is festive for Castillo and his followers.
THE EPIC AND THE SYMBOL
Pedro Castillo, called "The Profe" for his profession, including a master's degree in Educational Psychology, comes from a much loved and respected sector of the rural population: that of rural teachers.
Recognized for being moral authorities and for their vocation to work, teachers have for years been a political potential that had never emerged in these terms as it has now.
This is explained given that the Network of Rural Teachers of Peru, grouped in union instances, deployed in favor of Castillo and the symbol of the new Peru Libre party, whose logo is a pencil. This territorialized network in rural Peru and the urban peripheries campaigned from the base, with very few resources and practically counting on contributions from the poorest social layers and peasant organizations.
At the traditional "electoral breakfast" in Peru, Castillo appeared in his very modest home with his family in Tacabamba, Cajamarca department (Photo: Ernesto Benavides / AFP)
Peru Libre is a party that declares itself socialist. They manifest openly to embrace "Marxism and mariateguism." The symbol of the pencil places education as an essential element of the movement and its vision for the country.
Castillo's campaign offer was based on very simple but powerful "ideas-force": fight against corruption, state regulation of private activity, investment in education, care for the dispossessed and especially a new Constitution to do everything This is possible, which would be drafted through a Constituent Assembly.
Castillo's speech was direct, flat, and vigorous, with almost no restrictions on some issues. He shied away from going to the private press and avoided dealing with some biased interviews that might ridicule him. He was stigmatized for his hat, for his accent and where he came from.
The electoral result evolved with the end of the photograph, but in mid-April Castillo had more than 20 points of preference over Fujimori. Its decline was due to the harsh and effective campaign deployed by Fujimori, which featured most of the media (except La República , which remained weighted).
Keiko had enormous contributions to the campaign from the upper class and was entrenched in a speech that stoked fears against communism. Indeed, on several occasions Castillo's campaign had to deny that small merchants would not be deprived of their businesses and that families would not be expelled from their homes.
Fujimori used the situation of the Venezuelans in Peru, exposing them and using them as campaign scenery and warning of "not turning Peru into another Venezuela", for which they had the visit of Leopoldo López and Lilian Tintori.
Keiko's broadcast engineering in networks was clearly forceful and expensive, with messages plagued with fake news and where Castillo was classified as a "dictator, murderer and terrorist."
Faced with these conditions, the epic of "El Profe" and the symbol of the pencil lie, to a large extent, in that, despite having been seriously at risk, this campaign managed to prevail against the current of many electoral campaign manuals, without sugarcoated speeches , without ambivalent poses, without great resources, with minimal use of new technologies and from the depths of the communities in a permanent face-to-face.
NEW STARTING POINT AND MUTATION OF THE DEEP CRISIS
Castillo's rise to the presidency will be tumultuous and in a highly conflictual context. This will be proclaimed to be invested in office on June 28, on the emblematic date of the Bicentennial of the Andean country. All these components, as well as his own epic as well as that of his followers imposing themselves in the highest position of Peruvian politics, translate into an enormous milestone in the recent history of Peru.
However, the political picture that precedes him and that awaits Castillo is extremely complex.
The first edge lies in his own election, as it is developed through maximum pressure from Fujimori in the challenge, undermining not only Peruvian institutions, but also the legitimacy of the president-elect. The new president will take office amid another critical knot in heated Peruvian politics.
Next, an unstable political base awaits him, as it contains a quota of voters who have circumstantially supported him. Although a good part of the Peruvian electorate assumed Castillo's candidacy through a real aspiration for change, it is also true that "his" electoral base is also made up of broad sectors that rejected Keiko's candidacy.
But the most serious Peruvian crisis to be addressed by Castillo is just around the corner. The new president brings with him the proposal to found a Constituent Assembly and change the Peruvian Constitution. It has denounced the existence of overlapping powers and competencies that have resulted in aberrant levels of judicialization of politics, which have plunged that country into unprecedented instability. Peru must be "refound", he said.
Peru has had three presidents after the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018 over corruption scandals. It is the only country in the world where all its former presidents alive have been prosecuted and, additionally, the institutionality, atomized by its partisan tendencies and interest groups, is in permanent confrontation and dispute to the point of ungovernability.
The dismantling of this entire structure through a new Constitution and the formulation of a new institutional framework will be a huge challenge for "El Profe."
Castillo will assume the leadership of a flawed and delegitimized institutionality (Photo: Reuters)
The first obstacles, not only for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, but also for the regular actions of the executive government, will come from the elected parliament on April 11. Castillo's newest party won 37 seats of the 130 that make up the unicameral parliament. The second force in the chamber is Fujimori's Popular Force with 24 seats, while other right-wing parties in sum make up a solid remnant that will be constituted as a political opposition, which could clearly be the majority if they join Fujimorism.
Castillo's candidacy provoked the circumstantial union of forces antagonistic to Fujimorism in the same Peruvian right. It should not be ruled out, then, that given the possibility of profound reforms promoted by Castillo, these factors may come together to sustain its status quo and protect the battered institutional scaffolding.
Peru additionally reaps the balance of the economic and social ravages left by the pandemic. The fall was 11% in GDP and the crisis has left a new trail of poor people. The pandemic increased poverty by 10 points according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) . Figures from 2019 ensure that the country already had more than a third of its population living in poverty conditions measured by household income and unsatisfied basic needs.
The picture is much more serious in rural Peru. Poverty in 2020 affected 45.7% of that population. The rural environment includes large regions that have been relegated from the concentration of resources that go, mainly, to Lima and its Metropolitan axis.
For Castillo, it will be key now to find ways to sustain legitimacy and leadership, strengthening it now from the management of the government, with the challenges that circumstances impose on it.
The evident exhaustion of traditional forms of legitimacy in political parties, as well as the flawed institutional framework where it must navigate, will demand that it govern beyond the institutional and partisan leadership and will have to do so from and with a broad social base not represented in those instances. , namely, peasant forces, teachers, social organizations and grassroots movements with union aspirations, but with a shared vision of the country.
The momentum of his proposals in the unstable Peruvian politics brings for Castillo the risks of being prosecuted and swallowed up by the institutional machinery. But, unlike other politicians, "El Prof" is a man without a record for corruption and Peruvians are already largely fed up with the judicial tirade.
Castillo has moved political fibers in his nation, but he has also aroused affection, a situation that gives his government a mobilizing potential. The current point of initial momentum, before it begins to be eaten away by the Peruvian tirade, will be essential for the strategic advancement of his proposal and the aspirations of millions of Peruvians who now fervently accompany him.
https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/pe ... s-desafios
Google Translator
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Castillo Asks To Avoid Provocations From the Peruvian Far-Right
Flag with the pencil used by teacher Pedro Castillo as his political symbol, Lima, Peru, June 9, 2021. | Photo: EFE
Keiko Fujimori asked the National Jury of Elections to annul some 200,000 votes in regions where the leftist presidential candidate had won overwhelmingly.
Free Peru candidate Pedro Castillo asked his compatriots to remain calm in the face of destabilizing actions of those who want to disregard the results of the presidential elections held on June 6.
"Dear brothers and sisters: I thank those who continue to resist in the streets... Let us not fall into the provocations of those who want to see this country in chaos. We call for peace and tranquility. Let us remain firm and joyful in this final struggle that belongs to all Peruvians," Castillo tweeted.
This request came hours after far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party asked the National Jury of Elections (JNE) to annul some 200,000 votes in regions where Castillo had won overwhelmingly.
Without presenting any evidence, she argued that 802 electoral records had allegedly been altered by the leftist Free Peru party. The political maneuver of the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), however, began to take shape on Monday night when the vote count already showed Castillo as the winner.
On that day, she presented fake news to refute the preliminary reports of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore), whose electoral missions highlighted that the presidential elections had been carried out correctly.
As part of her attempt to destabilize the political process, Fujimori called for "defending the vote" while her supporters flooded social networks with requests for the Armed Forces to intervene to prevent Castillo from being officially proclaimed president.
In response, the Defense Ministry issued a statement recalling that "the Armed Forces are not deliberative and are subordinate to the constitutional power. Therefore, any call to disregard this mandate is unbecoming of a democracy".
The declaration of Castillo as Peru's president-elect has not occurred yet. Although the maximum deadline to challenge electoral records ended on Wednesday, the vote-counting process is moving very slowly. As of Thursday morning, Castillo has 50.2 percent of the votes and Fujimori has 49.8 percent.
Published 10 June 2021 (1 hours 11 minutes ago)
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cas ... -0002.html
Chip off the old block...
PEDRO CASTILLO WINS IN PERU: RECOUNTING AN EPIC AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
9 Jun 2021 , 11:43 am .
Coming from deep Peru, Castillo will make his way into the difficult Peruvian institutionality (Photo: Martín Mejía / AP Photo)
According to the calculations of the electoral body, this Wednesday, June 9 at 8 am (Lima time), with 99.79% of the records processed and 98.33% of the records counted, the candidate Pedro Castillo reached 8 million 735 thousand 448 votes for 50,206%, while Keiko Fujimori obtained 8 million 663 thousand 648 for 49,794%.
The difference is minimal, by 0.4 tenths for Castillo, although it could be slightly widened considering that there are rural votes to be counted and given that the vote abroad, favorable to Fujimori, has been counted 100%.
However, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the organizing electoral body, has outlined the existence of acts contested or observed (questioned) by the Peru Libre and Fuerza Popular parties. The figure is 1,260 minutes, of which 457 are contested due to doubts in the vote count.
These will now go to the National Elections Jury (JNE), an autonomous entity of the Peruvian institution, whose responsibility will be to determine the destination of the minutes and votes that are under condition of challenge.
According to some mathematical possibilities, only if this process is carried out in an arbitrary or selective manner against Peru Libre could the electoral balance defined so far be reversed, if there is the annulment of acts favorable to Castillo and the count of acts favorable to Fujimori.
This possibility, latent, but still to be considered remote, comes with the development of the close contest now in jurisdictional instances of the JNE or, in other words, the resolution of the elections through bureaucratic channels.
Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori had signed a commitment to respect the electoral results. However, this Monday, June 7, Fujimori busied himself in denouncing "signs of fraud at the polling stations" during the elections held on Sunday. "A series of irregularities have been occurring that concern us and we believe it is important to show it. There is a clear intention to boycott the popular will," he said.
Fujimori denounced that Castillo would be using the contesting of the minutes to delay the counts and his party assured in the afternoon of the same Monday that 80% of the challenged minutes favor the candidate.
"We call on citizens to help us," Fujimori stressed at a press conference, calling on his supporters to report "irregularities." This unleashed a reaction among his followers on the outskirts of various polling stations in different cities, and a significant number of "complaints" on social media and with the ONPE that have led to new obstacles to the slow "Quick Count" of the Peruvian electoral body.
The presidential elections also deal with the weakness that all the primary subsystems of electoral activity are manual.
Meanwhile, Pedro Castillo, who since Sunday night alerted his followers and table members to remain "vigilant" and organize vigils, on Monday 7 moved to Lima, where he has concentrated his followers on the outskirts of the house of his party, calling on them to "wait patiently" for the continuity of the counts and resolution of challenges.
Since Tuesday night the 8th and after the vote counting abroad, which failed to reverse the trends, the atmosphere is festive for Castillo and his followers.
THE EPIC AND THE SYMBOL
Pedro Castillo, called "The Profe" for his profession, including a master's degree in Educational Psychology, comes from a much loved and respected sector of the rural population: that of rural teachers.
Recognized for being moral authorities and for their vocation to work, teachers have for years been a political potential that had never emerged in these terms as it has now.
This is explained given that the Network of Rural Teachers of Peru, grouped in union instances, deployed in favor of Castillo and the symbol of the new Peru Libre party, whose logo is a pencil. This territorialized network in rural Peru and the urban peripheries campaigned from the base, with very few resources and practically counting on contributions from the poorest social layers and peasant organizations.
At the traditional "electoral breakfast" in Peru, Castillo appeared in his very modest home with his family in Tacabamba, Cajamarca department (Photo: Ernesto Benavides / AFP)
Peru Libre is a party that declares itself socialist. They manifest openly to embrace "Marxism and mariateguism." The symbol of the pencil places education as an essential element of the movement and its vision for the country.
Castillo's campaign offer was based on very simple but powerful "ideas-force": fight against corruption, state regulation of private activity, investment in education, care for the dispossessed and especially a new Constitution to do everything This is possible, which would be drafted through a Constituent Assembly.
Castillo's speech was direct, flat, and vigorous, with almost no restrictions on some issues. He shied away from going to the private press and avoided dealing with some biased interviews that might ridicule him. He was stigmatized for his hat, for his accent and where he came from.
The electoral result evolved with the end of the photograph, but in mid-April Castillo had more than 20 points of preference over Fujimori. Its decline was due to the harsh and effective campaign deployed by Fujimori, which featured most of the media (except La República , which remained weighted).
Keiko had enormous contributions to the campaign from the upper class and was entrenched in a speech that stoked fears against communism. Indeed, on several occasions Castillo's campaign had to deny that small merchants would not be deprived of their businesses and that families would not be expelled from their homes.
Fujimori used the situation of the Venezuelans in Peru, exposing them and using them as campaign scenery and warning of "not turning Peru into another Venezuela", for which they had the visit of Leopoldo López and Lilian Tintori.
Keiko's broadcast engineering in networks was clearly forceful and expensive, with messages plagued with fake news and where Castillo was classified as a "dictator, murderer and terrorist."
Faced with these conditions, the epic of "El Profe" and the symbol of the pencil lie, to a large extent, in that, despite having been seriously at risk, this campaign managed to prevail against the current of many electoral campaign manuals, without sugarcoated speeches , without ambivalent poses, without great resources, with minimal use of new technologies and from the depths of the communities in a permanent face-to-face.
NEW STARTING POINT AND MUTATION OF THE DEEP CRISIS
Castillo's rise to the presidency will be tumultuous and in a highly conflictual context. This will be proclaimed to be invested in office on June 28, on the emblematic date of the Bicentennial of the Andean country. All these components, as well as his own epic as well as that of his followers imposing themselves in the highest position of Peruvian politics, translate into an enormous milestone in the recent history of Peru.
However, the political picture that precedes him and that awaits Castillo is extremely complex.
The first edge lies in his own election, as it is developed through maximum pressure from Fujimori in the challenge, undermining not only Peruvian institutions, but also the legitimacy of the president-elect. The new president will take office amid another critical knot in heated Peruvian politics.
Next, an unstable political base awaits him, as it contains a quota of voters who have circumstantially supported him. Although a good part of the Peruvian electorate assumed Castillo's candidacy through a real aspiration for change, it is also true that "his" electoral base is also made up of broad sectors that rejected Keiko's candidacy.
But the most serious Peruvian crisis to be addressed by Castillo is just around the corner. The new president brings with him the proposal to found a Constituent Assembly and change the Peruvian Constitution. It has denounced the existence of overlapping powers and competencies that have resulted in aberrant levels of judicialization of politics, which have plunged that country into unprecedented instability. Peru must be "refound", he said.
Peru has had three presidents after the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018 over corruption scandals. It is the only country in the world where all its former presidents alive have been prosecuted and, additionally, the institutionality, atomized by its partisan tendencies and interest groups, is in permanent confrontation and dispute to the point of ungovernability.
The dismantling of this entire structure through a new Constitution and the formulation of a new institutional framework will be a huge challenge for "El Profe."
Castillo will assume the leadership of a flawed and delegitimized institutionality (Photo: Reuters)
The first obstacles, not only for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, but also for the regular actions of the executive government, will come from the elected parliament on April 11. Castillo's newest party won 37 seats of the 130 that make up the unicameral parliament. The second force in the chamber is Fujimori's Popular Force with 24 seats, while other right-wing parties in sum make up a solid remnant that will be constituted as a political opposition, which could clearly be the majority if they join Fujimorism.
Castillo's candidacy provoked the circumstantial union of forces antagonistic to Fujimorism in the same Peruvian right. It should not be ruled out, then, that given the possibility of profound reforms promoted by Castillo, these factors may come together to sustain its status quo and protect the battered institutional scaffolding.
Peru additionally reaps the balance of the economic and social ravages left by the pandemic. The fall was 11% in GDP and the crisis has left a new trail of poor people. The pandemic increased poverty by 10 points according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) . Figures from 2019 ensure that the country already had more than a third of its population living in poverty conditions measured by household income and unsatisfied basic needs.
The picture is much more serious in rural Peru. Poverty in 2020 affected 45.7% of that population. The rural environment includes large regions that have been relegated from the concentration of resources that go, mainly, to Lima and its Metropolitan axis.
For Castillo, it will be key now to find ways to sustain legitimacy and leadership, strengthening it now from the management of the government, with the challenges that circumstances impose on it.
The evident exhaustion of traditional forms of legitimacy in political parties, as well as the flawed institutional framework where it must navigate, will demand that it govern beyond the institutional and partisan leadership and will have to do so from and with a broad social base not represented in those instances. , namely, peasant forces, teachers, social organizations and grassroots movements with union aspirations, but with a shared vision of the country.
The momentum of his proposals in the unstable Peruvian politics brings for Castillo the risks of being prosecuted and swallowed up by the institutional machinery. But, unlike other politicians, "El Prof" is a man without a record for corruption and Peruvians are already largely fed up with the judicial tirade.
Castillo has moved political fibers in his nation, but he has also aroused affection, a situation that gives his government a mobilizing potential. The current point of initial momentum, before it begins to be eaten away by the Peruvian tirade, will be essential for the strategic advancement of his proposal and the aspirations of millions of Peruvians who now fervently accompany him.
https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/pe ... s-desafios
Google Translator
********************************
Castillo Asks To Avoid Provocations From the Peruvian Far-Right
Flag with the pencil used by teacher Pedro Castillo as his political symbol, Lima, Peru, June 9, 2021. | Photo: EFE
Keiko Fujimori asked the National Jury of Elections to annul some 200,000 votes in regions where the leftist presidential candidate had won overwhelmingly.
Free Peru candidate Pedro Castillo asked his compatriots to remain calm in the face of destabilizing actions of those who want to disregard the results of the presidential elections held on June 6.
"Dear brothers and sisters: I thank those who continue to resist in the streets... Let us not fall into the provocations of those who want to see this country in chaos. We call for peace and tranquility. Let us remain firm and joyful in this final struggle that belongs to all Peruvians," Castillo tweeted.
This request came hours after far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party asked the National Jury of Elections (JNE) to annul some 200,000 votes in regions where Castillo had won overwhelmingly.
Without presenting any evidence, she argued that 802 electoral records had allegedly been altered by the leftist Free Peru party. The political maneuver of the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), however, began to take shape on Monday night when the vote count already showed Castillo as the winner.
On that day, she presented fake news to refute the preliminary reports of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore), whose electoral missions highlighted that the presidential elections had been carried out correctly.
As part of her attempt to destabilize the political process, Fujimori called for "defending the vote" while her supporters flooded social networks with requests for the Armed Forces to intervene to prevent Castillo from being officially proclaimed president.
In response, the Defense Ministry issued a statement recalling that "the Armed Forces are not deliberative and are subordinate to the constitutional power. Therefore, any call to disregard this mandate is unbecoming of a democracy".
The declaration of Castillo as Peru's president-elect has not occurred yet. Although the maximum deadline to challenge electoral records ended on Wednesday, the vote-counting process is moving very slowly. As of Thursday morning, Castillo has 50.2 percent of the votes and Fujimori has 49.8 percent.
Published 10 June 2021 (1 hours 11 minutes ago)
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cas ... -0002.html
Chip off the old block...