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Bogota, Colombia (CNN)Six weeks aft voters headed to the polls successful Peru, erstwhile schoolteacher and national person Pedro Castillo has been formally declared the country's President-elect. He volition beryllium sworn successful connected July 28, the bicentennial of Peruvian independence, predetermination authorities announced Monday.
Earlier Monday, the National Jury of Elections (JNE) unanimously dismissed the last appeals filed by Castillo's opponent, Keiko Fujimori, regarding allegations of voting irregularities that were recovered to beryllium unsubstantiated. The JNE said Castillo won the predetermination with 50.126% of the vote. The 2 candidates were separated by conscionable 44,263 votes -- a razor-thin borderline for a state with a colonisation of astir 33 million.
Castillo's moving mate, economist Dina Boluarte, was declared vice president-elect by the JNE.
The unprecedented delay betwixt past month's runoff predetermination and Monday's announcement came due to the fact that the JNE was required to analyse Fujimori's allegation. According to Peruvian law, a victor tin lone beryllium declared aft the JNE has revised each ballot counts and resolved immoderate complaints by electoral monitors. There is nary ballot recount successful Peru's electoral system.
Fujimori, the girl of erstwhile Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, said earlier Monday she would respect the results of the predetermination but did not locomotion backmost her earlier allegations of "irregularities" successful the voting process. It was her 3rd unsuccessful run for Peru's presidency.
"I'm going to admit the results due to the fact that it's what the instrumentality and the Constitution that I person sworn to says. The information volition travel out, and we volition each enactment unneurotic to reconstruct legitimacy successful our country," Fujimori said astatine a quality league earlier Castillo was named President-elect.
Castillo and his party, Peru Libre, person denied the allegations of irregularities.
Castillo and existent President Francisco Sagasti called for unity pursuing the announcement. Sagasti said helium would admit the results presented by the JNE arsenic legitimate.
"I invited the proclamation of Pedro Castillo arsenic president-elect aft the announcement of the results by the JNE. Let's look optimistically astatine the aboriginal of our country," Sagasti said successful a tweet. "Nine days earlier the Bicentennial, whitethorn this beryllium the opening of a caller signifier of reconciliation, statement and unity."
The predetermination was held astatine a clip of utmost governmental instability successful Peru. Sagasti became Peru's 4th President successful little than 5 years aft Congress voted to oust fashionable erstwhile person Martin Vizcarra and Vizcarra's replacement, Manuel Merino, resigned.
Fujimori present faces a corruption probe that could person been suspended until the extremity of her mandate if she had won the election, according to a authoritative moving connected the lawsuit against her.
CNN's Mitchell McCluskey contributed to this report.
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