The ballots are in and being counted. Elections were yesterday for choosing a new president in Peru. There were originally ten candidates for president. There were three runners who had credentials to govern well and are better known than the others — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, an economist, former president Alejandro Toledo, who has a Ph.D. from Stanford; and Luis Castañeda Lossio, the former mayor of Lima.
With approximately 90% of the votes counted, these are the current results:
Ollanta Humala 31.4%
Fujimori 23.2%
Kuczynski 19.2%
Alejandro Toledo 15.3%
However, this was not the first round of voting. On Sunday, the original 50 percent of the votes counted gave nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala 27.6 per cent, followed by liberal Pedro Pablo Kuczynski with 23.1 percent and the right-wing Keiko Fujimori with 21.8 percent. Yet another round was made from counting ballots. Still many more are to come.
The votes are counted in the order of ballots received at the central office. So far, this technique has been proven effective.
Fujimori is the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a prison term for his April 2009 convictions for voluntary manslaughter, serious injury and aggravated kidnapping committed during 1991-92. She celebrated her apparent pass into the second round with her followers Sunday night, but Kuczynski refused to concede.
The final results have been said to take place hopefully within a week's time.
By: Becky Welc
No comments:
Post a Comment