Lima: Peru Libre’s legal advisor, Aníbal Torres, warned about coup attempts by right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and her political party.
Torres warned about the consequences of a possible coup d’état to prevent the coming to power of the candidate of his party, Pedro Castillo, who has obtained 50.12 percent of the votes in the second round of the elections, with the vote counting at 100 hundred percent of the minutes.
?If they are attempting a coup and they carry out that coup, they are not going to celebrate it. Much blood will flow in the country, but they will fail, they will not succeed. It is not like in other times when coups were held?, the member of the Peru Libre legal team said.
Torres’ statements come while the plenary session of the National Elections Jury (JNE) of Peru processed on Monday ten files on requests for annulments of the second electoral round of the last Peruvian presidential elections for alleged irregularities, such as the falsification or impersonation of signatures, filed by the Popular Force party.
That was the second hearing in which the challenges filed by the right-wing party were discussed. Last week, the public hearings to review the appeals of the requests for the annulment of electoral records were suspended after the decline of the Supreme Prosecutor Luis Arce Córdova to continue to be part of this body.
On Monday, the electoral jury heard the lawyers of both candidates on the appeals and rejected three evaluated files. Judge Víctor Rodríguez Monteza, who replaces Judge Luis Arce, was the only one who voted in favor of declaring these three files founded.