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19:10 | Lima, Jul. 23. President-elect Pedro Castillo on Friday affirmed that his incoming government s first fight will be intended for the sake of citizens health in times of COVID-19 and the economic reactivation.
Within this framework, Castillo said that his administration will declare a war against the pandemic. Health and Peruvian lives come first. Our fight will begin there to find a way to vaccinate all Peruvians and reactivate people s economy, he expressed.
According to the school teacher, Peruvians at current times do not think so much about politics, but rather about how to provide for their families or how to heal a relative who is in the hospital.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who had never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a runoff election held last month.
Leftist Pedro Castillo catapulted from unknown to president-elect with the support of the country’s poor and rural citizens, many of whom identify with the struggles the teacher has faced. Castillo was officially declared winner Monday after the country’s electoral count became the longest in 40 years as his opponents fought the results.
Castillo received 44,000 more votes than right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori in the June 6 runoff. This is the third presidential election defeat for the daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori.