Despite massive street protests, Fujimori was inaugurated on July 28, Months later, after the publication of videotapes revealed colossal corruption, his regime collapsed.
Fujimori fled the country in disgrace and resigned by fax. She had served as First Lady since She was just 19 years old, and her father appointed her to the position after separating from his wife, Susana Higuchi. The couple became estranged after Higuchi publicly denounced government corruption, especially among members of the Fujimori family; Higuchi claims Fujimori tortured her on repeated occasions before throwing her out.
Keiko did not reenter politics until , when her father was arrested in Chile, scuttling his plan to launch a new bid for the presidency in the elections. She was elected to Congress in with the highest number of votes, revealing that the Fujimori name still resonated among parts of the population. The following year, her father was extradited to Peru, put on trial, and eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison for gross human rights violations, corruption, and abuse of authority.
The conviction was a landmark in the global human rights movement. Her main goal was to free her father. Still, she has failed three times to win the presidency. In , she lost by a three percent margin to national populist and former army officer Ollanta Humala and immediately conceded defeat. In , she lost to center-right banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, known as PPK, by only 40, votes; she begrudgingly acknowledged the results but never accepted her defeat. Indeed, during the campaign, she frequently told reporters that her mistake in was failing to demand a recount.
Although Fujimori narrowly lost to PPK in her bid for the presidency in , her party, Fuerza Popular, took 56 percent of the congressional seats. This was enough to engineer a super-majority coalition in Congress. She used that power to bring PPK to his knees, censuring ministers and cabinets, threatening to remove him from office, and making the country ungovernable.
Analysts say the slim victory will leave the leftist outsider — who has never before held public office — with little room to manoeuvre. He was later jailed in for 25 years for corruption and death squad killings. It is the third consecutive and narrow defeat for Fujimori in presidential runoffs. As a young student, he had to walk for more than two hours to reach school.
He eventually became a schoolteacher, a job he did for 25 years, and a union leader. And in a meteoric rise to power, despite having no experience in office, in he was elected president of Peru, propelled by the same rural voters he grew up with.
Casting himself as a man of the people, Mr Castillo was rarely seen without the traditional white, broad-rimmed hat of his Cajamarca region, and a huge inflatable pencil, the symbol of his Marxist Free Peru party which also represents his background in education. He argues the country has not been governed in the interest of the vast majority, and has called for "drastic changes" to address poverty and inequality, including a controversial pledge to draft a new constitution.
His opponents have tried to portray him as a left-wing extremist with ties to communist guerrilla groups, allegations he denies. He has moderated his rhetoric, but critics remain concerned that some of his plans could undermine one of the most stable countries in Latin America. He started his political career in , when he unsuccessfully ran for mayor, and first rose to prominence in during a teachers' strike over pay and performance evaluation. Castillo had an advantage of about 44, votes against the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori.
Although Fujimori claimed fraud regarding , votes, international observers did not report irregularities. Last year, Congress pushed an impeachment process against former President Martin Vizcarra, which forced him to step down. Two million people have lost their jobs and nearly one-third now live in poverty, according to official figures. The country has the world's highest per capita death rate from the virus. It reports nearly , deaths and more than 2 million infections, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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