- Title: PERU: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN CANDIDATES WIND UP CAMPAIGNS AS PERU GOES TO POLLS.
- Date: 5th April 1995
- Summary: MOQUEGUA, CUZCO AND LIMA, PERU (APRIL 5, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) MOQUEGUA 1. SLV PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI ARRIVING BY HELICOPTER/SV BEING GREETED (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SV/VARIOUS FUJIMORI HOLDING UP FISH/ FUJIMORI DANCING (5 SHOTS) 0.43 CUZCO 3. SV FORMER UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER
- Embargoed: 20th April 1995 13:00
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- Location: CUZCO, MOQUEGUA AND LIMA, PERU
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- Country: LATIN AMERICA Peru
- Reuters ID: LVA8J96SI5ILMMK0TSZ7Y1GCT12C
- Story Text: Candidates for Sunday's presidential election in Peru were winding up their campaigns on Wednesday (April 5) as the people registered to vote.
President Alberto Fujimori campaigned in Moquegua, in the country's south. He flew there by helicopter to christen the Pasto Grande water project, the first hydro-electric plant in the area.
In keeping with his habitual spontaneity, the president took part in celebratory dancing.
Meanwhile, in Cuzco, former United Nations secretary general, Javier Perez de Cuellar, who has been placed second in the polls, wrapped up his campaign to a crowd of more than 15,000 supporters.
"Isn't it humiliating for Peru to be the only non-democratic country in Latin America?" Perez de Cuellar told the crowd. He said later in a television interview Cuba was another exception.
"On April 9, you can choose between democracy and authoritarianism. With this vote, you can liberate Peru," the 75-year-old diplomat told the meeting in the city 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Lima.
Three years ago on Wednesday, Fujimori closed an opposition-controlled Congress and declared emergency rule, saying he needed a strong hand to wipe out two guerrilla insurgencies and push through free-market economic reforms.
His party won congressional elections in late 1992 and wrote a new constitution allowing his re-election.
Susy Diaz, an exotic dancer and one of the contest's more colourful candidates campaigned brought her campaign for a congressional seat to central Lima. Although the crowd she attracted was composed almost entirely of men, Diaz said that if elected she would be a strong advocate of womens' rights.
Elsewhere in Lima, hundreds of people queued up to either renew or replace their voter registration cards. Voting is obligatory in Peru and those who abstain face fines.
Some 12.4 million voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president, two vice-presidents and 120 members of congress.
Fujimori, who is a son of Japanese immigrants, was far ahead in the latest opinion polls but pollsters said his support had slipped and he may have to face a second round if he did not garner 50 percent of the valid vote.
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