Peru's President Orders Repression of Protesters
Peruvian President Alan Garcia ordered the police on Wednesday to repress, using weapons if necessary, the persistent protests in numerous municipalities against the result of partial elections .

"Enough with party and disorder," the president said after congratulating this capital´s conservative mayor Luis Castañeda for his reelection.

"I ask the Interior Ministry and the National Police to practice, with absolute severity, their authority, and if necessary, to use their weapons; the country needs order and discipline," he said.

He asserted that it is the government´s obligation to reestablish order immediately, and lashed the electors that do not recognize the poll results and incurred in occupation of electoral colleges and municipalities, and other measures.

In the most serious incident on Sunday, a soldier in charge of guarding the ballot boxes died when he fell down an abyss, running from a crowd of protesters in a locality of the northern Ancash region.

Garcia demanded that the demonstrators appear in court and be sentenced severely, which will be done immediately, according to Attorney General Adelaida Bolivar.

She said those elements are motivated by illegal motives, "savagely, in a step backwards of the national civic life," she stated.

Opposition Partido Nacionalista party leader Ollanta Humala said his organization has nothing to do with the violent actions, and it has rather been a victim, as in the shooting attack against a nationalist candidate.

National Electoral Jury president Enrique Mendoza warned that this entity will not call to new elections due to violent pressures, and demanded identification and incarceration of the organizers.