Tag: Keiko Fujimori

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Peruvian president offers to cut short his term and call for fresh elections to overcome the “institutional crisis”

  

  Peru's President Martin Vizcarra on Sunday offered to cut short his term and hold elections to end what he called an institutional crisis. He said in a speech to Congress this would also involve shortening the term of the legislature. As it stands, general elections are scheduled for July of next year.

• Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Ex Peruvian president Alan Garcia shoots himself in the head

  

  Former Peruvian President Alan García was reported to have died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head minutes before a warrant for his arrest was to be executed. Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez, 69, was president of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He also served in Congress.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 13:19 UTC

  Former ex-president Garcia shoots himself when police tried to arrest him

  

  Peru’s former president Alan Garcia shot himself early on Wednesday after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, a police source said.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 17:45 UTC

  With Keiko Fujimori in prison, Peruvian president calls for a fight against corruption without partisan “armoring”

  

  The president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, called on Friday to fight against corruption in favor of democracy “without threats, or armoring”, by opposing criticism on the judicial ruling that keeps the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in preventive detention since Wednesday.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Peruvian powerful leader Keiko Fujimori ordered to jail on corruption charges

  

  Former Peruvian first daughter Keiko Fujimori was ordered back to jail Wednesday in a case that has captured attention in a country reeling from a series of corruption scandals reaching into the highest echelons of power.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Public opinion support for Peruvian president in his struggle with Congress

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra’s approval rating shot up 16 points to a high of 61% in October, after he adopted a harder line with the opposition-run Congress, a monthly Ipsos poll showed on Sunday.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 19:01 UTC

  Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

  

  A week after the justice annulled the pardon to her father, the former president Alberto Fujimori, after a request of the Peru's Attorney of Wash of Assets, the powerful leader of the Popular Force party, Keiko Fujimori, was arrested in Lima on Wednesday after going to a court to be questioned with her husband. The arrest occurred amid an investigation for alleged irregular handling of funds of the party's campaign for 2011 presidential elections.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 12:14 UTC

  Fujimori's pardon reversed, due back in jail goes to hospital instead

  

  Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's pardon was reversed by a court of law Wednesday, ruling that he must go back to prison. Instead, he was admitted into a hospital on health grounds.

• Thursday, July 12th 2018 - 17:37 UTC

  Peruvians against corrupt judiciary - President Vizcarra announces reforms

  

  Thousands of Peruvians marched Wednesday evening in Lima to protest against corruption in the justice system, after recordings of unproper behaviour by judges and members of the Council of the Magistracy were aired.The demonstration began from Plaza San Martin and toured Lima's historic downtown on its way to the Main Courthouse building and back to Plaza San Martín.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2018 - 20:27 UTC

  Peruvian president offers resignation to Congress ahead of an impeachment vote

  

  Embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has offered his resignation to Peru's congress ahead of a scheduled vote on whether to impeach the former Wall Street investor on corruption charges, according to a presidential aide. If congress accepts the resignation, power would transfer to Vice President Martin Vizcarra, who is serving as Peru's ambassador to Canada.