By Percy Hartley
Peru is the center of the international news these days. Unfortunately, not for having exceeded the levels of contagion or victims of the Pandemic, for having vaccinated the majority of the population or for a commercial, economic or tourist improvement. Our country is the subject of international headlines, the opinion of experts in international politics, and the concern of financial and economic agents.
To respond to our dear foreign reader friends on social networks and this magazine, it is important for us to summarize the main events in our country, in order to be properly clarified in an objective and faithful way to what happened, in English.
After having assumed power in 2016, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned due to severe indications of corruption and criminal offenses. His Vice President Martín Vizcarra taking office, who after a corruption scandal and poor management of sanitary conditions in the midst of a pandemic , is constitutionally vacated by the Congress of the Republic, who appoints its President, Manuel Merino, who, not being recognized by a popular agitation fingered by the radical left that frightens the country with ungovernable marches, resigns after a few days, after a riot almost coup and the Congress, which was mostly right-wing, appoints a moderate leftist as President, Francisco Sagasti, all this in less than fifteen days, in the month of November 2020.
With Sagasti in power in principle until the end of the mandate of the defenestrated Kuczynski and Vizcarra, that is, July 28, 2021, an emblematic date in addition to the Bicentennial of our Independence, reaffirms the determination to respect the electoral calendar and the fulfillment of the General Elections of President of the Republic and Congress, scheduled for April 11 and Balotage for June 6, respectively.
Only fifteen days before the elections, the majority of pollsters reflected the favoritism of moderate candidates, socialists and liberals of the market or traditionalist right, but they did not give, in the whole country, any option to 6% to the candidate Pedro Castillo, teacher union leader Castro-Chavista leftist party that represents the Communist-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Party, expressed publicly in its ideology and openly by its leader Vladimir Cerrón, involved in major corruption scandals with a conviction and signature sentence. The candidate of the traditional Popular Action ( Acción Popular ) party, Johnny Lescano led the polls with 15%, followed by the traditionalist conservative Catholic Rafael López Aliaga with 12%. Great surprise caused an irregular rise in Castillo in the last two weeks and in Keiko Fujimori, overshadowed by alleged non-governmental criminal offenses and daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who pacified a country devastated by terrorism, forged a Constitution of the Social Market Economy and modernized the country, but for not fully clarified human rights crimes, he is serving a long prison in Lima, with a sentence that applied a doctrine not typical of local law as a source, that is to say, mediate authorship.
Unexpectedly, Pedro Castillo wins the first round and Keiko Fujimori in second place. A fierce contest begins where the radical left candidate does not hide his intentions to implement a Marxist government in Peru after a constitutional change, where successive presidential reelection would be implemented, expropriation of natural resources concessioned to private parties such as mining, new confiscatory agrarian reform, limitation of imports, restriction of foreign investment, annulment of protection, Ombudsman and constitutional freedoms, among other totalitarian measures, not hidden, expressly supported in its Government Plan and publicly ratified. In other words, a new version of North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, in their image and likeness.
The candidate Fujimori offered constitutional continuity, a social market economy and freedom of contracting and competition, no State intervention in private activity, only a subsidiary role and following the same successful political line in Peru for the last thirty years, after having suffered from communist terrorism and years of unprecedented socio-economic crisis.
But the elections of June 6 are marred by a systematic fraud at the voting table, allegedly organized by supporters of Peru Libre Party and covered by countless irregular voting records, manipulated and observed against the candidate Fujimori, in addition to Votes intentionally annulled and taken to a deliberative jury, in the face of unfortunate passivity of the official electoral bodies.
This position has been supported and legally oriented, proceeding to present annulment appeals of around 800 official records.. Those that if validated by the Electoral Court (which the Democrats widely distrust because it is presided over by a Marxist lawyer and former defender of terrorists) would give a broad victory to Fujimori who at 100% of the count is only surpassed by 44 thousand votes, is say 0.37%. Candidate Castillo has proclaimed himself President, with the unofficial but inopportune greeting of leftist Presidents and Former Presidents of the region and openly communists or some wrongly oriented local authorities, despite the fact that he has not been officially Proclaimed and no one will be, until the term of review of all the contested or observed minutes and only at that moment will the winner of the elections be made official. Before, it is an undue usurpation of a title, an illusion.
Due to this, the country has suffered a regrettable division, since the votes are even in principle, but in the face of so much real evidence of table fraud, voters for a free and constitutional country have initiated public demands for transparency to the Electoral Jury, marching peacefully in the streets to make their voice reach, which Castillo voters also do in parallel, but in a threatening way and demanding the proclamation without completing the review of annulments.
In solidarity with what happened in the country, former Presidents of Ibero-American nations have expressed their concern and compatriots abroad are calling for similar marches for freedom and democracy, demanding a just and lawful ruling and convinced that Peru voted for continuity democratic and not for a communist regime with no return, yearning to celebrate our free and independent Bicentennial. So be it!
