Keiko Fujimori

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Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi ( Japanese 藤森 恵 子 , Fujimori Keiko ) (born May 25, 1975 in Lima ) is a Peruvian politician .

Life

Origin, education, private life

Keiko Fujimori's parents are former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori and former Congresswoman Susana Higuchi .

In 1992 Keiko finished her school career at the Sagrados Corazones Recoleta in Lima. The following year she went to the United States to study business administration. She began studying at Stony Brook University and graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in 1997 .

Keiko Fujimori is married to Mark Vito Villanella, an American who became a Peruvian citizen in 2009. They have two daughters, Kyara Sofia, born in 2007, and Kaori Marcela, born in 2009.

Beginning of the career as a politician

Keiko Fujimori with her father on the evening of the 1995 presidential election

In August 1994, after her parents divorced, her father named her Primera Dama of Peru. At the age of 19, during her studies, she became the youngest first lady on the American continent.

After her father resigned, Keiko stayed in Peru until 2004 and then earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University in New York. However, she suspended her studies to return to Peru in 2005 after extradition proceedings were brought against her father. She became the leader of the Fujimorista political group. In April 2006 she was elected Member of the Congress of Peru .

As a congressman and chairman of the party, Keiko, like her father at the time, campaigned in particular for tightening security laws. In her role as opposition leader, z. B. proposed a law that limits benefits for prisoners who have committed serious crimes. Furthermore, she proposed an additional law which obliges judges to impose maximum sentences for repeat offenders. Together with other Fujimorista congressmen, she worked on a draft law that would allow the death penalty for serious crimes.

Party formation and the 2011 and 2016 presidential elections

In 2009, Keiko Fujimori began collecting signatures to found her own political party, Fuerza Popular . After more than a million signatures had been collected across the country, the responsible authority “Jurado Nacional de Elecciones” (National Committee for Elections) formally recognized the party in March 2010.

Opinion polls recently gave her a good chance of winning the 2011 presidential election . She would have been the first female president in the country's history. During the election campaign, she spoke out in favor of a liberalized economic policy and stricter security policy. Among other things, private investment should be encouraged, the death penalty introduced and more prisons built.

During the election campaign she was accused of having little respect in dealing with human rights. Time and again it was publicly suspected whether the liberation of her father from prison was the main goal of Keiko Fujimori's candidacy and, in general, of Fuerza Popular. In response to these assumptions, Fujimori spoke to the press in mid-April 2011 with the words: "Yo juro por Dios que no voy a indultar a Alberto Fujimori" (German: "I swear by God that I will not pardon Alberto Fujimori"). This statement was preceded by a corresponding assertion by the candidate for the office of Vice President of her party. She narrowly lost the runoff election against politician Ollanta Humala in early June 2011.

Parole in Lima against Keiko Fujimori in memory of the mass forced sterilization especially Quechua women's under the government of Alberto Fujimori , Keiko Primera Dama was

Fujimori ran again for the 2016 presidential election. In the first ballot she came in first place ahead of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Verónika Mendoza , but missed the necessary absolute majority with 39.2% of the votes, which required a runoff. In the second ballot, she was narrowly defeated by the former Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who was elected as the new President with 50.12% of the vote . The Fuerza Popular party , on the other hand, had an absolute majority in parliament.

Because of the suspicion of bribery in the course of the extensive bribery of Latin American politicians by the Odebrecht Group, Keiko Fujimori was placed in custody in October 2018, initially for eight days, then, through a second judgment for up to 36 months, until the investigation was concluded suspected money laundering. In November 2019, the Constitutional Court lifted pre-trial detention.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Fall of Fujimori , accessed November 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.sify.com/finance/daughter-of-disgraced-president-seeks-to-run-peru-news-news-lejwO2jbfec.html
  3. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/us-peru-election-candidates-idUSTRE7353R620110406
  4. ↑ NorthJersey.Com. "Peruvian candidate Fujimori courts votes in North Jersey" , NorthJersey.Com (accessed April 17, 2011): "Fujimori, who holds a master degree in business administration from Columbia University"
  5. ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-30/fujimori-nostalgia-makes-daughter-a-peru-presidential-contender.html "Fujimori Nostalgia Makes Daughter a Peru Presidential Contender," Bloomberg BusinessWeek ( accessed on April 17, 2011)
  6. ^ A b Reuters: Analysis: Two polarizing figures may meet in Peru run-off
  7. ↑ Bloomberg BusinessWeek. "Fujimori Nostalgia in Peru Fuels Daughter's Candidacy" , Bloomberg Business Week (accessed April 17, 2011)
  8. ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-30/fujimori-nostalgia-makes-daughter-a-peru-presidential-contender.html "Fujimori Nostalgia Makes Daughter a Peru Presidential Contender," Bloomberg BusinessWeek ( accessed on April 17, 2011)
  9. ↑ List of Presidents of Peru (accessed April 17, 2011)
  10. ^ Radio Programas del Perú (RPP). "Keiko Fujimori: Juro por Dios que no indultaré a mi padre" , (accessed on May 24, 2011)
  11. ↑ taz.de of June 6, 2011
  12. ↑ Presidential election in Peru Fujimori wins first ballot . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 11, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 11, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Years of incarceration for Peru's opposition leader , Deutsche Welle, November 1, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018.
  14. ↑ Tribunal Constitucional decidió excarcelar a Keiko Fujimori , accessed on 26 November of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fujimori, Keiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fujimori Higuchi, Keiko Sofía (full name); 藤森 恵 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima