“Since they have nothing else to say, they insult me, they attack me.”. Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi He knows what it is to carry the weight of his surnames. However, he does it with pride, and that is why he usually speaks on behalf of the father and his spirit, although a good part of Peruvians do not necessarily consider him a saint. Eldest daughter of former autocrat Alberto Fujimorigoes beyond the vindication of a past, the 90s: it wants to reissue it in its own way. He is confident that the fourth attempt at the presidency will put an end to an electoral history of failures in the second round.
Born on May 25, 1975 in LimaKeiko, as her followers call her, entered the political world through the door of urgency. His parents separated in the middle of a media soap opera. Fujimori reported the dismissal of the First Lady through a televised message. She reported having been kidnapped by Vladimiro Montesinosthe Rasputin of the president who, upon divorcing, assigned Higuchi’s institutional place to the eldest daughter.
She alternated the role of First Lady with studies at a university in the United States, paid for, as Montesinos himself revealed before the Attorney General’s Office, with public money administered by the shadowy National Intelligence Service (SIN) under his charge. To the “spoiled girl” of “the Chinese“, as the president was called, despite his Japanese origin, he had to witness his political spring and winter. The autocrat fled to Japan at the end of 2000 in the midst of large demonstrations against him. He announced his resignation from the presidency through a fax. The candidate graduated in Business Administration, but the exercise of the profession was politics and the surname as a business venture in itself. Keiko extended the lineage as a crest in successive presidential elections starting in 2011. He lost to Ollanta Humala, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Pedro Castillo. Now he wants to reverse those bitternesses against Roberto Sanchez.
Great influence
Over the years, while her father was imprisoned for responsibility for serious human rights violations, she accumulated experience as a parliamentarian and manager of the party she leads, Fuerza Popular. He became the main figure of the opposition and something more: managed to make Fujimorism govern in reality without being a Government by having enormous influence on all powers of the State. The only thing missing was access to the Pizarro Palace. His fourth electoral attempt was close to being frustrated because Fujimori and around thirty activists and lawyers had to face a trial for the Odebrecht case in 2024, as the illegal financing of politics through a Brazilian construction company was called. The Constitutional Court came to his aid. The money laundering trial has been left in limbo.
Throughout this campaign he has once again exalted the absent father and promised to follow his path on economic and security issues. Just as Alberto Fujimori applied the “hard hand” against the armed group Luminous Pathshe promised to exercise it against the delinquency that devastates the big cities. “To defeat terrorism it was not necessary to apply the death penalty, and I believe that it is not necessary now either. What I do believe is that We are going to have to leave the Pact of San José“he said about the country’s commitments to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Keiko also promised a Government of “technocrats”with the best specialists. “We will not look at the political color.” And furthermore, she has presented herself as the standard-bearer of “reconciliation.” Always smiling, with an imperturbable expression, so similar to his father’s.
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