VARIOUS: SUPPORTERS OF FORMER PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI REQUEST THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO REGISTER AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS

Record ID: 443013

  • Title: VARIOUS: SUPPORTERS OF FORMER PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI REQUEST THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO REGISTER AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS
  • Date: 15th December 2004
  • Summary: (U7) LIMA, PERU (DECEMBER 14, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. SLV SUPPORTERS OF FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI CHANTING "CHINO, CHINO" CHINAMAN, CHINAMAN; MV SUPPORTERS PASSING OUT PRO-FUJIMORI PAMPHLETS; MV SUPPORTERS CHANTING PRO-FUJIMORI SLOGANS THROUGH BULLHORN; MV SUPPORTER SHOWING PRO-FUJIMORI PAMPHLET (6 SHOTS) 0.41 2. SLV PAN EXTERIOR OF MINISTRY OF JUSTICE BUILDING WITH DEMONSTRATORS GATHERED 0.48 3. SCU BANNER READS 'STOP THE PERSECUTION' WITH FUJIMORI'S PICTURE 0.57 4. (SOUNDBITE)(Spanish) FUJIMORI SUPPORTER, MARIA ELIJALDE SAYING: "Leave the Fujimori supporters alone. Leave us in peace because we are workers, because the president has shown us. That's why the people are asking for him. Because of his work because he has left a mark." 1.08 5. SLV SUPPORTERS HOLDING PERUVIAN FLAG WITH FUJIMORI PICTURE 1.15 6. (SOUNDBITE)(Spanish) DEPUTY SECRETARY OF FUJIMORI PARTY DIEGO USEDA SAYING "The only possible outcome is for Alberto Fujimori to be president." 1.20 7. SLV SUPPORTERS WITH BANNERS 1.30 8. (SOUNDBITE)(Spanish) CONGRESSMAN EDIBERTO BENITEZ SAYING: "If Alberto Fujimori comes back to the country he would would first have to go court and he would not be able to run for president because he has been prohibited to do so by the Congress of the Republic. So, he is legally prohibited from running for president of the republic and he has to go to trial for the misdeeds for which he was denounced." 1.58 (U7) TOKYO, JAPAN (FILE)(REUTERS) 9. SCU FORMER PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI ON JAPANESE TELEVISION SHOW 2.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU; TOKYO, JAPAN
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  • Country: Japan Peru
  • Reuters ID: LVA303CA2UOIHSSR0VYJ1V8PEQA4
  • Story Text: Supporters of former president Alberto Fujimori
    request that he be allowed to register as a presidential
    candidate for upcoming elections.

    Supporters of exiled Peruvian president Alberto
    Fujimori protested in front of Peru's Congress on Tuesday
    (December 14, 2004) to request that he be allowed to run for
    re-election in 2006. He is banned from public office in
    Peru until 2010.

    "The only possible outcome is for Alberto Fujimori to
    be president," said his deputy secretary in Peru Diego
    Useda.

    Mr. Fujimori, living in Japan since 2000, leads the
    polls with 24 percent of respondents backing his candidacy
    making him Peru's most popular politician.

    Fujimori, 66, is accused of heading up a criminal
    organization responsible for killing 23 people in 1991-92
    and of forgery and embezzlement throughout his 10 year
    presidency (1990-2000).

    "If Alberto Fujimori comes back to the country he would
    would first have to go court and he would not be able to
    run for president because he has been prohibited to do so
    by the Congress of the Republic," said Peruvian Congressman
    Ediberto Benitez.

    Fujimori denies any wrongdoing and has announced he
    intends to run for president.


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