Tag: Keiko Fujimori

• Monday, May 3rd 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Castillo and Fujimori hold first presidential debate leading to Peru's runoff

  

  The presidential debate between both runoff candidates, one of whom will become Peru's new president on June 6, took place Saturday in the North Andean city of Chota.

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• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Peru Libre candidate Pedro Castillo hospitalized with respiratory problems

  

  Peruvian presidential hopeful Pedro Castillo was hospitalized Thursday with a “respiratory decompensation,” his party Peru Libre announced.

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• Monday, April 19th 2021 - 21:44 UTC

  Covid-19 cases soar in Peru just days after the elections

  

  Peru's Health Ministry has recorded 433 covid-19 related deaths, bringing the total toll to 57,230 in 13 months, it was announced Monday. Also, 7,131 new infections were detected Sunday, bringing the total to 1,704,757. The steep increase comes days after the country's general elections.

• Friday, April 16th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Third-place finisher in Peru's elections wants vote count review but shall not endorse Castillo at runoff

  

  Rafael López Aliaga of Popular Renovation (Renovación Popular – a right-wing party founded in 2020), who finished third in Sunday's first round of Peru´s presidential election with 11.69% of valid votes, behind Pedro Castillo (19.12%) and Keiko Fujimori (13.37% ) has requested Thursday the revision of all the voting records but warned he will not support “Communist” Castillo at the June 6 runoff.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori likely candidates for Peru's presidential runoff

  

  Ultra-leftist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party and perennial conservative contender Keiko Fujimori looked poised to advance to the runoff after Peru's National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) had counted 93.479% of the votes.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 11:20 UTC

  Pedro Castillo ahead in Peruvian elections but results will take about a month to be known

  

  Ultra left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo of the Perú Libre party was surprisingly ahead on Monday morning after the first round of Peru's presidential elections, but the names of those advancing to the runoff will not be known for about a month, officials said.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  Peruvian leader pledges to pardon ex-president Fujimori if she wins April's general election

  

  Peru's opposition leader Keiko Fujimori has said that she would pardon her jailed father, former president Alberto Fujimori, if she wins April's general election. The 82-year-old Fujimori is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity and corruption.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:50 UTC

  Removal of Peruvian president depends on his greatest adversary and head of opposition, Keiko Fujimori

  

  The Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, the greatest adversary of President Martín Vizcarra, rejected this Sunday the motion to remove the president and urged Congress to act with “prudence”.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Peruvian elections return an atomized Congress to the advantage of president Vizcarra

  

  The opposition’s crushing defeat in Peru’s legislative elections has left a fragmented Congress without a dominant party, which should help President Martin Vizcarra pass his reforms with the support of centrist parties.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Parliamentary election in Peru that hopefully will cut the influence of Fujimorism

  

  Peru will hold separate parliamentary elections for the first time on Sunday as President Martin Vizcarra looks to break the influence of the main opposition party of Keiko Fujimori.