Alberto Fujimori sits between his children Kenji (L) and Keiko upon his release from the Barbadillo prison in the eastern outskirts of Lima, on December 6, 2023. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, 85, will be a presidential candidate in the next elections in 2026, his daughter Keiko Fujimori, leader of Peru’s main right-wing party, announced on July 14, 2024. -
Lima, July 15 (RHC)-- On Sunday, the leader of the far-right Fuerza Popular party, Keiko Fujimori, announced that the former president of Peru and his father, Alberto Fujimori, who was freed from his sentence for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people, will run for the fourth time to the presidency of the country in 2026.
Keiko Fujimori, 49 years old, has tried three times for the presidency, but has failed to obtain it.
“My father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate,” said Keiko Fujimori on social networks.
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Although it was announced, the country's law says that those who have been convicted of corruption, like Fujimori, cannot run for president or vice president of the country.
According to the Prosecutor's Office specialized in corruption crimes, Fujimori, 85 years old, who was convicted of the murder of 25 Peruvians during his administration in 1992, has three other sentences for corruption and owes around 15 million dollars to the Treasury. .
In June, Alberto Fujimori joined the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, sharing a video in which he appears with his eldest daughter. The phrase "The founding leader of Fujimorism, takes his place in Fuerza Popular" was included in the publication.
Keiko Fujimori, 49 years old, has tried three times for the presidency, but has failed to obtain it. On July 1, a trial was held against her for alleged money laundering, in which the prosecution has requested a sentence of 30 years in prison.
After being released from prison by the government of President-designate Dina Boluarte to comply with a controversial 2017 presidential pardon revived by the Constitutional Court, Alberto Fujimori, who governed between 1990 and 2000, has begun to rebuild his image on social networks. social.
Last February, Willax television station asked him if it was reasonable for Boluarte to call new elections, in reference to the protests that lasted three months and caused 50 deaths between 2022 and 2023. "It is not justified, the government of President Dina Boluarte will continue until 2026. The former leader affirmed that at least Fuerza Popular and Fujimori have reached an agreement.
In May, Fujimori revealed that he had been diagnosed with a "new tumor" on his tongue, which was considered "malignant." The former dictator stated in a video on social networks that "now that I have regained my freedom I have to fight a new battle."
After Fujimori joined his daughter's political party, the former president's family doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga, expressed that health is the former president's priority, but that his right to run or participate in politics cannot be denied.
