Peru stages general strike for Pedro Castillo as coup fears intensify
A woman joins a march in support of presidential candidate Pedro Castillo exactly one month after June 06 presidential elections in Lima, Peru
PERU was rocked by a national strike today as thousands of workers walked out demanding that Pedro Castillo be formally announced as president-elect, nearly three weeks after his election victory was declared.
The Workers’ General Confederation and Mr Castillo’s Free Peru party called the action amid growing fears of a Bolivian-style coup to prevent the self-declared Marxist-Leninist from taking up the post.
The National Election Jury (JNE) has not yet officially declared Mr Castillo as the Andean country’s president-elect, despite announcing the result of the poll putting him ahead of rival Keiko Fujimori by about 44,000 votes.
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