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Fernando Belaúnde has been crying fraud ever since he finished 14,000 votes behind the controversial Haya de la Torre. Knowing that powerful army leaders fear Haya from his earlier days as a flaming leftist, he counted on the army to rally behind him. He journeyed from the capital of Lima to the mountain city of Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply...
...Prado had taken precautions against a coup, spending most of one night at the palace gathering assurances of loyalty from army officers. Lima's Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts also issued an appeal to all leaders to respect "justice, truth and the legal order of the nation." The anti-Haya army generals still blustered, but when the respected National Elections Court rejected the charges of fraud against Hava's supporters, the generals assured the Elections Court: "We acknowledge the power that the constitution and the elections statute confer upon the high and autonomous institution over which you preside...
Obviously no one except Belaúnde had much stomach for a test of arms. Last week, backers of Haya got together with the camp of the third presidential candidate, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, and reached an "agreement in principle" to form a national union government. Together they would have a majority in Congress when it convenes next week to settle the split election. Rumors buzzed that Haya might agree to step aside in favor of Odria as President, but that Haya's APRA Party would have the major say in the Cabinet. A coalition government headed...
...Manolo will be on in a few minutes." Haya's silver-haired vice-presidential candidate. Manuel Seoane, soon appeared to deny that Belaunde-or anyone else-could claim victory so soon...
...week's end Belaunde's Action Popular gave his total as 593.759, some 29,000 ahead of Haya. APRA's figures showed Haya with 546,407, ahead of Belaunde by 34,000 votes. The closest thing to an impartial estimate was in ex-Premier Pedro Beltran's La Prensa: Haya, 586,000 (32.75%); Belaunde, 579,000 (32.32%); Odria, 500,800 (27.95%). It would probably be three weeks before the last votes were counted officially...