Fujimori promises to be president of Peru only for the 5-year term if she wins the elections

Lima.- Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, who will compete in the second round of Peru's presidential elections predictably against leftist Roberto Sánchez, assured that, if she becomes president of her country in her fourth attempt, she will only be in office for the five years corresponding to the term.

"I want to be very clear. If I become president of Peru, it will only be for five years," she said during a visit to the Amazonian city of Contamana, in the Loreto region, as part of the start of her tour of the country with a view to the second round of June. The political daughter and heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) referred in this way to the fears that her eventual rise to power raises in a part of the population with a total vindication of her father's government, who staged a coup in 1992 and established a new Constitution with which he was re-elected on two occasions.

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The Peruvian Constitution prevents presidents from immediate re-election, which the candidate and leader of the Fujimorist party Fuerza Popular assures she will respect, just as she also promised on the three previous occasions where she was defeated in the second round of the presidential elections (2011, 2016 and 2021). Instead, he pointed to Sánchez, his eventual rival, for wanting to stay in power supposedly for 30 years under a model similar to Chavismo in Venezuela, in apparent alliance with the ultranationalist leader Antauro Humala, a brother of former President Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) who was in prison for 17 years for a military uprising in 2005 and who currently heads ethnocacerism, a political current of supremacy of the Andean race. With 98.02% of the votes counted, Fujimori is the most voted candidate, obtaining 17.13% of the valid votes, which represents 2,824,997 ballots; followed by Sánchez, with 12.04%, and in third position by López Aliaga, with 11.89%.

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The second round is scheduled for Sunday, June 7. The National Elections Jury (JNE) has rejected altering the calendar with a call for complementary elections that are not contemplated in the norm, as requested by López Aliaga to try to get the votes that separate him from Sánchez.