Elections in Peru: behind in the count, Roberto Sánchez calls for a recount 'of all the minutes that the legislation allows'

Peru's presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez during an interview
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Roberto Sánchez, Peru's presidential candidate, asked this Friday (12) for a "recount in all the minutes that the legislation allows to review" due to the small difference in votes between him and his opponent, Keiko Fujimori.
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Com 98.271% of the ballot boxes counted at 7pm Brasília time, Keiko Fujimori was leading the presidential race with 50.010% of the votes, or a difference of just 3,441 votes, according to the Peruvian electoral authority, the ONPE.
Sánchez asked his opponent to join him in requesting a recount.
"In view of the extreme narrowness of the electoral result, I want to publicly extend an invitation to Keiko Fujimori to meet as soon as possible and act together in defense of transparency and citizen trust", said the deputy, in a message published on the social network of the votes in all those minutes that the legislation allows to review, with full respect for the electoral institutions and current norms", asks Sánchez.
According to the official vote count website, only 9 ballot boxes are pending counting, and another 1,595 are marked as "for sending to the JJE". The JJE (Special Electoral Jury) is the highest body in the Peruvian election, equivalent to the TSE in Brazil.
The submission may signal inconsistencies or possible errors in the counting of the minutes. In the country, voting is done using paper ballots and placed in the ballot box. Each voting table, in turn, generates minutes.
ONPE had not officially commented on Sánchez's request until the last update of this report. Therefore, there is no determination for a recount in the country and the current count remained valid.
Peru Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori during a rally in Lima
Angela Ponce/Reuters
Recount
The partial recount was already expected by the Peruvian electoral body. Before the second round, the JJE published a statement saying that the declaration of the winner could take time.
The president of the JEE, Roberto Rolando Burneo Bermejo, said that the recount process is time-consuming, and, therefore, estimated that the result could only be released in mid-July, given the proximity of the number of votes for each candidate.
The number of minutes under review is small compared to the total number of votes in Peru - in total, there are 92,700 minutes in the Peruvian electoral system. However, the dispute in the count is so fierce that the revised minutes can redefine the result.
Bermejo also stated that more minutes can be submitted for recounts if the National Elections Jury deems this to be the case.
Recounts can be carried out for different reasons, such as:
The number of electoral ballots does not correspond to the number of voters from that electoral table;
When there is a discrepancy in the number of votes in the minutes and the corresponding ballot box;
When competing parties dispute the result of the minutes and the electoral board accepts the challenge.

Source: G1