Son of Jewish refugee wins Peruvian presidential elect
Source: Jerusalem Post
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a Peruvian banker and former prime minister whose father was Jewish, was elected as Peru’s president.
Kuczynski won a bare majority of votes — 50.12 percent — over Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s national election office announced on its official Twitter page Thursday evening.
Kuczynski, 77, was born in Lima to a French Protestant mother and a German Jewish father who fled the Nazis. He is nicknamed “El Gringo” – the American – for his ties to the United States, where he has lived from 1969 onward.
“Thank you Peru, it is time to work together for the future of our new country,” Kuczynski announced on Twitter.
Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Son-of-Jewish-refugee-wins-Peruvian-presidential-election-456496
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