Thousands march against Keiko Fujimori before vote

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Thousands march against Keiko Fujimori before vote

By Moises Avila, Luis Jaime Cisneros (AFP) 1 hour ago.

Thousands of people marched in Peru's capital against Keiko Fujimori, the frontrunner ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff.

Marchers shouted slogans such as "Keiko No!" and "No to a state run by drug traffickers", an allusion to her father, disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori. His decade in office, veered from elected to almost authoritarian rule, and was plagued by corruption. His supporters however praised his hard line against the communist guerrilla group Shining Path, and some economic strides.

Keiko Fujimori, a right-wing populist who would be Peru's first woman president, is the political heir to her father's controversial rule from 1990 to 2000.

Alberto Fujimori, 77, is now serving a 25-year sentence for massacres committed by an army death squad during his rule.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. Thousands march in Peru to oppose Fujimori before election

Thousands march in Peru to oppose Fujimori before election

May 31, 10:29 PM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Thousands joined in marches across Peru on Tuesday to oppose the presidential candidacy of Keiko Fujimori just days before her runoff contest against another pro-business conservative, Pedro Kuczynski.

Fujimori's critics view her as a threat to democracy, pointing to her father, former President Alberto Fujimori. He is in prison for authorizing death squads and corruption during his decade in power as an authoritarian leader in the 1990s.

Keiko Fujimori has sought to counter her critics by vowing not to revive the hard-line methods of her father, who is still popular with many rural Peruvians for defeating the Maoist-inspired Shining Path rebels.

Fujimori easily led the initial round of the April 10 presidential ballot. Kuczynski, a former World Bank economist, finished second to earn the other spot in Sunday's runoff election.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_PERU_ELECTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-31-22-29-01

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[Ford_Prefect]

2. Here we go again...

[sofa king]

3. Close enough to steal it, guaranteed.