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Top | 24 April, 2006 [ 11:20 ]

Election Results Tomorrow

According to the JNE (National Elections Council) it is possible that by tomorrow the result of who will accompany Ollanta Humala into the second round will be known. This announcement was made after the election judges finished revising the more than 8,000 observed voting acts. All that remains is for the ONPE (National Office for Election Processing) to finish tallying the results of these 8,000 acts.

With nearly 98% of the vote counted Ollanta Humala continues to lead with 3,702,503 votes (30.74%) followed by Alan García with 2,930,766 (24.33%). Lourdes Flores remains in third place with 2,847,612. García remains the most likely candidate to join Humala in the runoff as he continues to lead Flores by 83,000 votes.

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Top | 21 April, 2006 [ 11:00 ]

García Closer to Runoff

APRA presidential candidate Alan García appears to be very close to joining Ollanta Humala in the second round. His advantage over Lourdes Flores increased to nearly 90,000 votes with over 95% of the votes counted. García has registered 2,851,948 votes to Flores 2,762,654. Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala continues to lead with 3,616,936 votes.

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Top | 21 April, 2006 [ 11:00 ]

Villagers Evacuated Due to Volcano

The Ubinas volcano had a second eruption yesterday prompting authorities to declare an orange alert and evacuate some 161 people. The explosion was followed by the formation of a large mushroom cloud.

The secretary of the local Civil Defense group Marcos Espejo, said that after the explosion there was new volcanic ash and other volcanic substances that would cause conjunctivitis and other respiratory problems.

Some 41 families (161 people in total) will be evacuated from their villages on the slope of the Ubinas volcano in vehicles provided by the Regional Government of Moquegua. The evacuation will not be easy as the terrain is difficult and there are no modern roads in the area.

For his part, President Alejandro Toledo affirmed that he is “monitoring very closely” the situation and added that the is evaluating a trip the the are to help direct the relief efforts.

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Top | 20 April, 2006 [ 10:52 ]

García Continues in Second

With 92.32% of the votes tallied Alan García continues to hold on to a thin lead over Lourdes Flores. As of yesterday the difference was a scant 73,401 votes. At the beginning of the day yesterday Lourdes Flores had narrowed the difference to 67,449.

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Top | 19 April, 2006 [ 11:38 ]

Gap Between Lourdes Flores & Alan Garcia Narrows

With nearly 91% of the votes counted Lourdes Flores has closed the gap to within 79,838 votes of Alan Garcia. As of yesterday the difference between the two candidates was 90,216. Ollanta Humala continues to lead with 30.83% of the vote followed by Alan García with 24.32% and then Lourdes Flores with 23.61%.

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Top | 18 April, 2006 [ 11:33 ]

Election Results Will be Finalized by Next Week.

A spokesperson for ONPE (the Peruvian organization responsible for monitoring elections) indicated that they will have 100% of the votes counted and the results finalized, at the very latest, by the end of next week.

The spokesperson indicated that approximately 33% of the votes cast in foreign countries and a small percentage of votes cast in remote areas of Peru have yet to be counted. The spokesperson declined to comment on who would make it into the runoff with Ollanta Humala, Alan García or Lourdes Flores.

Once all the votes have been counted and it is determined who joins Humala in the second round the National Elections Board will set a date for the runoff.

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Top | 18 April, 2006 [ 11:26 ]

Only 90,216 Votes Separate García and Flores

With 90.53% of the votes counted Ollanta Humala has 30.86%, Alan García 24.34%, and Lourdes Flores 23.54%. There remains approximately 161,000 votes to be counted mostly which pertain to foreign countries.

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Top | 17 April, 2006 [ 11:41 ]

Only 95,000 Votes Separate Alan Garcia from Lourdes Flores

With 89.5% of the votes processed the difference between Alan Garcia and Lourdes Flores has shrunk to 0.85%. As of Monday morning, April 17, Nationalist Candidate Ollanta Humala continues to lead with nearly 31% of the vote while Garcia remains in second with 24.38% followed closely by Lourdes Flores with 23.53%. The top two candidates will advance to runoff, which is tentatively scheduled for early June.

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Top | 12 April, 2006 [ 13:50 ]

And the tension continues...

The tension continues, we still do not know who will be at the second round running for the next presidencial elections with Ollanta Humala and we will have to wait two weeks more until all the votes are counted. According to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) out of the 87,66% of the total votes, Ollanta Humala has 30,96% of the votes, Alan García is at the second place with 24,44% of the votes and Lourdes Flores is at the third place with 23,37%.
Flores and García are waiting and telling each vote, according to García the votes coming from the country side will support his party and according to Lourdes Flores, the votes from the Peruvians living abroad will support her. There are 293 thousands Peruvian voters in the US, in Europe there are 139 thousands, in Asia 23 thousands, in Oceania 1,453 and in Africa 145.

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Top | 12 April, 2006 [ 12:15 ]

Vladimiro Montesinos amassed US$600 millions

According to Walter Hoflich, chief of the Financial Unity of the “Procuraduría Anticorrupción del Perú”, the former adviser to president Fujimori Vladimiro Montesinos accumulated US$ 600 millions in different banks in Panama through enterprises and front-men.
The money was placed in 70 accounts and their origin were the illegal commissions for the purchase of weapons for the Peruvian army and from the public funds during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and is part of Fujimori´s contingency.
Hoflich explained that the “Procuraduría Anticorrupción de Perú” has asked the authorities of Panama further information about the accounts, though they answered that “it was not possible because the owners of the accounts were Panamanian citizens”, Hoflich added that in 2005 the enterprises and the accounts were owned by Peruvian citizens.
Montesinos fled the country in 2000 and stayed in Panama between September and October, he asked for political asylum but the president of Panama at that time Mrs. Mireya Moscoso denied him the asylum.
Montesinos fled a second time to Venezuela, where he was captured in June 2001 and repatriated to Peru, where he stays in a high security prison in the Navy Base of Callao. He is accused for being the responsible of the biggest corruption net ever discovered in Peru.

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