The former president’s daughter Fujimoriand comedian television and a millionaire businessman admirer of Trump are the figures of right who arrive as favorites at presidential in Peru.
Keiko Fujimori leads the last surveys one week away from a first round with a record of 35 candidateswhich provides for a runoff in June between her and whoever wins the fight between Carlos Alvarez y Rafael López Aliaga.
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Fujimori Dynasty
Keiko Fujimorithe once combative founder of the party of right populist Popular Force, today shows a more moderate tone than in its previous campaigns.
Administrator trained in USA, madre of two daughters and divorcedhas forged for two decades a dynasty in the name of his deceased father, the former president autocrat Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
“He has no choice” but to win in his fourth consecutive bid since 2011, he tells the AFP the political scientist Carlos Meléndez, who investigates Fujimorism from academia.
The candidate, 50 yearsis presented as the safe option for defeat to the gangs of extortionists and hitmen by appealing to the memory of their padrea figure that polarizes the country.
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Although condemned for violations of human rights and corruption, Alberto Fujimori is considered the architect of the defeat of the Maoist Shining Path, the guerrilla bloodiest of the Americas and whose methods were compared to the Khmer Rouge of Camboya.
“Our country needs order. And we have already achieved that” in the 1990s, Keiko Fujimori said during a recent televised debate.
Leader with a preference of a 15% the last Ipsos poll authorized before the ban that applies during the week before the election.
Promise”firm hand“against crime and withdraw Peru from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to implement”faceless judges” (hooded) who judge criminals.
The comedian
He comedian, Carlos Alvarez, an acquaintance imitator of politicians that burst into the campaign with the new Country for All party, is the great novelty of the comics.
He started relegated in the polls, but a week before the voting moved from second place to Lopez Aliagawhom he surpasses by a narrow margin.
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The 62-year-old comedian uses a radical right-wing speech. He offers an “iron fist” and “death penalty” against the hitmen, whom he wants to declare “military objective“.
“Those miserable people don’t deserve to live,” he told the AFP.
“Álvarez He is an outsider in all his magnitude. And those who are looking for someone new see him as alternativeespecially because it has positioned itself on the right of the spectrum political“, says Meléndez.
‘Porky’, Catholic and Trumpist
Catholic and businessman millionaireRafael López Aliaga, who adopted the nickname “Porky“because of his resemblance to the cartoon pig Porky Pigapply for the second time.
He has been one of the campaign’s animators by giving face to a christian nationalism that navigates with winks to Donald Trump.
Celibate to his 65 years old, this member of Opus Dei and leader of Renovación Popular was mayor of Lima between 2023 and 2025.
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Engineer by training, did fortuna in front of a group business financial, hotelier y railway.
In a recent interview he defined himself as a “Christian manager, who dedicates himself to politics for love.”
To combat crime, he proposes expelling migrants Venezuelans irregular “to your Venezuela dear” and sign a treaty so that USA capture criminals in Peru.
He also promises prisons in the middle of the Amazon and how Fujimoriwithdraw the country from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
“Like Trump, he is the type of politician that you can’t imagine moderating,” says Meléndez.
The letter on the left
Other candidates are not ruled out in a runoff, since in the last election Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), who was elected, appeared seventh a week before the first round.
From the left psychologist Roberto Sánchez, 57, appears, who presents himself as the political heir of Castillo, condemned 11 and a half years of jail for a failed coup attempt Status in 2022.
Congressman and former minister, his strongest electorate is in the poor and rural populations of the southern Andes, to whom he promises that he will pardon the former president if he comes to power.
Offers to promote a Constituent Assembly to replace the 1993 constitution, promulgated by Alberto Fujimori and whose liberal economic model he disapproves.
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