The leftist Roberto Sanchez recognized his defeat days after the right-wing Keiko Fujimori was proclaimed as president-elect of the country, according to a release released on Monday by his Together for Peru party and two allied groups.
Fujimori She was officially announced last week as the winner of the second election on June 7, with 50.135% of the votes, with a difference of 49,641 votes compared to her rival.
Sanchez said in the statement published in X, also signed by the opposition leaders of the Party Now Nation and the Civic Party Worksthat the recognition of the results does not imply “giving up the right to point out and denounce the irregularities that occurred during the electoral process.”
In the letter, Sanchez He stated that he will form a parliamentary coalition to exercise from Congress together with his allies “firm, vigilant and responsible political control to defend fundamental rights, recover justice, the balance of powers of the State (…) and democracy.”
In the statement, the three political parties also affirm that Congress will seek to restore peace in the country through an agenda that includes the freedom of the former president. Pedro Castillo, who was imprisoned for trying to dissolve Congress at the end of 2022. The expulsion of the former president generated social protests that left dozens of people dead and injured.
The leftist candidate had previously said that he was not going to recognize a government of Fujimori after denouncing, without evidence, that there was fraud. Sanchez, who led marches against the process, presented last week before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Cidh) a complaint against the elections.
Fujimori, the daughter of the late former president Alberto Fujimori who ran for the fourth time, will take office on July 28 for a five-year government period.
