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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, July 15, 2024, p. 28
Lima. 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 yesterday.
My father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate.Keiko Fujimori wrote on her social networks, along with a video featuring her father, who announced in May that he suffers from a malignant tumor of the tongue.
Alberto Fujimori, of Japanese origin, ruled Peru with an iron fist between 1990 and 2000 and under his leadership defeated the Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso, whose main leaders were arrested.
He was imprisoned for 16 years for crimes against humanity, until the country’s highest court ordered his release. immediateaged 85, and was released from prison on December 7, 2023 under the protection of a pardon granted for humanitarian reasons, despite the objection of the inter-American justice system.
He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for two massacres of civilians carried out by an army squad in the context of the fight against Shining Path in the early 1990s.
“The rhythm of The Chinese”
His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, who leads the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, which her father joined on June 15, told the newspaper El Comercio that she saw her father as having the strength to undertake another presidential campaign.
He is in the process of walking again and is also receiving radiotherapy. When we talk about politics, I see his will to live and I trust that he will recover. He will be an excellent candidate, a great president. In 2026 we will campaign to the rhythm of the Chinese.said the three-time defeated Peruvian presidential candidate.
In May, the former president known as El Chino said on his social media that a malignant tumor was detected in his tongue, where he has suffered from a cancerous lesion for more than 27 years.
In 2018, Fujimori revealed that doctors detected a tumor in his lungs and that he has undergone more than one operation for the cancerous lesion on his tongue.