{"id":5206,"date":"2024-07-15T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:40:44","slug":"alberto-fujimori-to-stand-in-2026-peru-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/alberto-fujimori-to-stand-in-2026-peru-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Fujimori to stand in 2026 Peru elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori — aging and legally embattled — will stand in the South American country’s 2026 elections, his daughter announced Sunday.<\/p>\n

“My father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate,” Keiko Fujimori, leader of the South American country’s main right-wing party, said.<\/p>\n

President from 1990 to 2000, the elder Fujimori, 85, ruled Peru with an iron fist, leading a military campaign that largely defeated the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group.<\/p>\n

To some, he is remembered for bolstering economic growth through his neo-liberal policies while crushing the rebels.
\nOthers recall his ruthless, authoritarian governing style.<\/p>\n

He was sent to prison in 2009 over massacres committed by army death squads in 1991 and 1992 in which 25 people, including a child, were killed in supposed anti-terrorist operations in his Shining Path campaign.<\/p>\n

Fujimori was released last year for humanitarian reasons, though it is unclear if he is eligible to stand for election because of the conviction.<\/p>\n

He was pardoned “for humanitarian reasons, but it has not eliminated his criminal responsibility or the very nature of the sentence,” Ernesto Blume, a former judge on Peru’s Constitutional Court, told broadcaster Canal N.<\/p>\n

In 2018, an aging Fujimori revealed that doctors detected a tumor in his lungs.<\/p>\n

Last month, it was disclosed that he was in intensive care after breaking his hip in a fall at home.<\/p>\n

Keiko Fujimori, who leads the right-wing Popular Force party, recently said her father — who also disclosed he was suffering from a tongue tumor — was strong enough to embark on another presidential run.<\/p>\n

“When we talk about politics, I see his will to live and I trust he will recover,” she told Peruvian daily El Comercio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori — aging and legally embattled — will stand in the South American country’s 2026 elections, his daughter announced Sunday. “My father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate,” Keiko Fujimori, leader of the South American country’s main right-wing party, said. President from 1990 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}