Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who served a sentence for corruption and organising massacres of dissidents, intends to run in the next election of the head of state. This was reported by his daughter Keiko Fujimori.
"My father and I talked and decided together that he should become a presidential candidate," she wrote on her X page.
The 85-year-old politician's daughter, who herself has run for Peru's presidency three times, posted an excerpt of an interview in which she speaks of her willingness to "let her father lead the presidential formula." "He told me he is aware of all the risks but wants to return to the political arena," Keiko Fujimori said. The next presidential election will be held in Peru in 2026.
In April 2009, Fujimori, who led the country from 1990 to 2000, was found guilty of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison. In particular, the court found that the politician had been proven to have been involved in the murder of 15 people in the Barrios Altos district in November 1991 and in the kidnapping and murder of nine students and a university professor in Lima in July 1992. In addition, the former president has been convicted in some cases involving corruption and embezzlement of public funds. In 2017, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori, who was not released until December 2023.
Reprinted from https://news.am/
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