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Weekly Report - 18 July 2024 (WR-24-28)

PERU: Alberto Fujimori plans audacious comeback

Peru’s authoritarian former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) is plotting an unlikely presidential comeback after being controversially released from prison last year, where he had been serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption. Fujimori, who will be 86 at the time of the next election in 2026 and in his 90s if he were to win and serve a full term, is in poor health and faces legal obstacles to his candidacy. But a relentless campaign to gain influence over the judiciary by Fuerza Popular (FP), the right-wing party led by his daughter Keiko Fujimori, could remove some of those barriers.

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