{"id":33470,"date":"2024-07-14T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/former-peruvian-leader-alberto-fujimori-plans-to-run-for-presidency-in-2026-daughter-says\/14\/07\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T02:42:01","slug":"former-peruvian-leader-alberto-fujimori-plans-to-run-for-presidency-in-2026-daughter-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/former-peruvian-leader-alberto-fujimori-plans-to-run-for-presidency-in-2026-daughter-says\/14\/07\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori plans to run for presidency in 2026, daughter says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 828px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-lightbox\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%\" data-lightbox-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/y0tMsja0qKl0DpIsR5thQg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0xNjAw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/e20122e18fe9bd0ef12da61efb1b3b31\"><span class=\"caas-img-wrapper\"><button class=\"link caas-lightbox\" aria-label=\"View larger image\" data-ylk=\"sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;elm:expand;itc:1\"><span class=\"openArrows icon\"><svg width=\"22\" height=\"22\" viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\"><path d=\"M12.372 0.92C12.372 0.414 12.782 0.004 13.287 0.004L21 0L20.996 7.712C20.996 8.217 20.586 8.628 20.08 8.628C19.574 8.628 19.164 8.217 19.164 7.712V3.183L12.337 10.011L10.988 8.663L17.816 1.835H13.287C12.782 1.835 12.372 1.425 12.372 0.92ZM1.835 17.816L8.663 10.988L10.012 12.337L3.183 19.164H7.712C8.218 19.164 8.627 19.574 8.627 20.08C8.627 20.586 8.218 20.995 7.712 20.995L0 21L0.004 13.287C0.004 12.782 0.414 12.372 0.92 12.372C1.425 12.372 1.835 12.782 1.835 13.287V17.816Z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse collapsed\">FILE &#8211; Peru&#8217;s jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 28, 2016. Former President Fujimori, who was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people, plans to run for Peru&#8217;s presidency for the fourth time in 2026, his eldest daughter said Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo\/Martin Mejia, File)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 Former President <span class=\"caas-xray-inline-tooltip\"><span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Alberto_Fujimori\" data-ylk=\"cid:Alberto_Fujimori;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Alberto%20Fujimori\" data-i13n=\"cid:Alberto_Fujimori;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alberto Fujimori;cid:Alberto_Fujimori;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alberto Fujimori<\/a><\/span><\/span>, who was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people, plans to run for Peru&#8217;s presidency for the fourth time in 2026, his eldest daughter said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate,\u201d <span class=\"caas-xray-inline-tooltip\"><span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Keiko_Fujimori\" data-ylk=\"cid:Keiko_Fujimori;pos:2;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Keiko%20Fujimori\" data-i13n=\"cid:Keiko_Fujimori;pos:2;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Keiko Fujimori;cid:Keiko_Fujimori;pos:2;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Keiko Fujimori<\/a><\/span><\/span>, leader of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, said on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the announcement, Peruvian law says anyone found guilty of acts of corruption cannot run for the office of president or vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Fujimori, who was convicted in 2009 of involvement in the killing of 25 Peruvians during his administration in 1992, has three convictions on corruption charges and owes about $15 million to the Treasury, according to the Attorney General\u2019s Office specializing in corruption crimes. The former president was extradited from Chile in 2007 and was in a Peruvian prison until last December.<\/p>\n<p>Fujimori, 85, joined his daughter&#8217;s party in June, posting a video of the event in which he is seen with Keiko Fujimori along with the phrase: \u201cThe founding leader of Fujimorism takes his place in Fuerza Popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keiko Fujimori, 49, has herself run for president three times unsuccessfully. On July 1, a trial began against her on allegations of money laundering for which the prosecution is seeking a sentence of 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Fujimori, who governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand in 1990-2000, has begun to rebuild his image on social networks since being released from prison in December under a 2017 presidential pardon that was revived by Peru&#8217;s Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>Fujimori reported in May that he had been diagnosed with a new tumor on his tongue that was considered malignant. In July, he underwent hip replacement surgery after a fall, his daughter said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/former-peruvian-leader-alberto-fujimori-012229313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE &ndash; Peru&rsquo;s jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/former-peruvian-leader-alberto-fujimori-plans-to-run-for-presidency-in-2026-daughter-says\/14\/07\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}