Peru political fog thickens as election count official quits


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO: Peru's presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori addresses the media, in Lima, Peru June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's already tense election process was plunged into further disarray after one of the four magistrates on the jury reviewing contested ballots quit after clashing with the other officials over requests to nullify votes.

Luis Arce said on Wednesday night he would leave his post after the jury rejected the first 10 requests to annul votes presented by right-wing Keiko Fujimori, who was narrowly behind socialist outsider Pedro Castillo in the June 6 vote.

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