Tag: Popular Force

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori out of prison struggling to recover her party's position as leader of the Peruvian opposition

  

  Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, who was released from prison on Friday, grew up during her father Alberto Fujimori's deeply divisive reign as president from 1990 to 2000. Keiko, now 44, sided with her father when her mother Susana Higuchi accused Alberto's men of torturing her and divorced him in 1994. Keiko Fujimori took over first lady duties at the age of just 19.

• 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.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 09:23 UTC

  Divided Fujimori opposition helped Kuczynski avoid removal from office

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has thwarted a bid in Congress to force him out over a graft scandal, as an opposition lawmaker accused him of securing votes by promising to free ex-president Alberto Fujimori from jail. Before Thursday evening’s vote on a motion to push him out, Kuczynski urged lawmakers to set aside unproven allegations of graft against him to defend Peru from what he called a coup attempt by the right-wing Popular Force party.