Peru to vote on returning a Fujimori to presidential palace
Thu Jun 2, 2016 8:11pm BST
Peru to vote on returning a Fujimori to presidential palace
LIMA | By Mitra Taj
Less than a decade after Peru imprisoned its former President Alberto Fujimori, voters will decide on Sunday whether to put his 41-year-old daughter back in the presidential palace where she once served as his first lady.
Keiko Fujimori has a four percentage point lead over her rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ahead of the run-off vote, helped by her tough stance on crime and years of campaigning in poor villages in the populist style of her right-wing father.
But with pollster Ipsos estimating a fifth of voters tend to remain undecided until election day, Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former investment banker, could stage a late surge.
It is Fujimori's second bid to become Peru's first female president. Her critics fear a return to the days when her father ruled the Andean nation by decree, despite her repeated promises to respect the democratic institutions he trampled before his government collapsed in a vast corruption scandal in 2000.
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