{"id":118641,"date":"2021-04-14T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118641"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:30:47","slug":"118641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118641","title":{"rendered":"Peru&#8217;s presidential elections: Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori likely candidates for runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/80866\/0x0\/keiko-castillo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/80866\/760x480\/keiko-castillo.jpg\" alt=\"Keiko Fujimori seems on course for the runoff against Chavist Castillo\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, April 14 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Ultra-leftist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party and perennial conservative contender Keiko Fujimori looked poised to advance to the runoff after Peru&#8217;s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) had counted 93.479% of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although these results are still preliminary, Castillo was visibly ahead with 19.056% of the votes, followed by Keiko Fujimori from Fuerza Popular with 13.326%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hernando de Soto of Go Ahead Country (Avanza Pa\u00eds) had 11.709% in a technical tie for third place with Rafael L\u00f3pez Aliaga of Popular Renewal (Renovaci\u00f3n Popular) with 11.706%. It seemed unlikely either of them would be able to topple Fujimori from the second round on June 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yonhy Lescano (Acci\u00f3n Popular) had 9.118% of the votes; Ver\u00f3nica Mendoza (Juntos por el Per\u00fa) 7.803%; C\u00e9sar Acu\u00f1a (Alianza para el Proreso) 6.056%; Daniel Urresti (Podemos Peru) 5.679% and George Forsyth (Victoria Nacional) 5.632%. Other minor parties accounted for the rest of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Alberto Fujimori, serving a prison sentence for crimes during his tenure, said in a telephone interview that he was confident his daughter would make the cut and eventually win in June. \u201cAnd then she will have to fulfill her campaign promise: to pardon her father.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elections authorities had warned Sunday that it could take up to a month for the official results to be known, out of fear of a close tie for second place, as it had happened in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even in the early hours of Monday, private consultants had anticipated Fujimori would advance as the trend now seems to corroborate. &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, April 14 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Ultra-leftist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party and perennial conservative contender Keiko Fujimori looked poised to advance to the runoff after Peru&#8217;s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) had counted 93.479% of the votes. Although these results are still preliminary, Castillo was visibly ahead with 19.056% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}