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Peru's powerful Fujimori siblings head for a split
BY LUIS JAIME CISNEROS (AFP) YESTERDAY
Keiko Fujimori heads Peru's most influential party -- but risks seeing it split and her presidential ambitions dashed following a nasty spat with her brother Kenji, a popular fellow lawmaker who is also eyeing the presidency.
Keiko, 43, and Kenji, 38, are the politician children of former president Alberto Fujimori, the controversial leader who shaped Peruvian politics in the final decade of the 20th century. Two other siblings are not involved in politics.
Keiko, who heads Fuerza Popular (Popular Force), the largest party in Peru's single chamber legislature, is on the verge of having her supporters kick her younger brother out of Congress on corruption charges.
"Whether they expel him from Congress or not, Kenji will be a powerful candidate" in the 2021 presidential race, said political analyst Juan Carlos Tafur, a columnist with the weekly Somos.
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