Leaders of Peru’s Fuerza Popular are scrambling for ways to save their party’s once-dominant place in politics and overturn a presidential order dissolving congress, where the opposition movement held a majority.
Police stand guard outside the government palace in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the opposition-controlled congress and called new elections on Monday, saying the step was needed to uproot the nation's endemic corruption.
The dissolution of congress has plunged Peru into its deepest constitutional crisis in nearly three decades, and some think it may be the start of a final, bleak chapter for the country’s most prominent political dynasty. When the legislature was last shut down in 1992, strongman Alberto Fujimori sat in the presidential palace calling the shots. Fast forward 27 years, and now it is the party led by his cherished eldest daughter that is being kicked out.
The political phenomenon known in Peru as “Fujimorismo” has seen wild ups and downs but it has always managed to rebound. This time might be different. If new legislative elections are held in 2020, as Vizcarra plans, the party will almost certainly lose its majority in congress. “The ‘chinito’ came in and made beautiful roads,” Rios said, using a popular nickname for the imprisoned former president. “When he arrived, this country was totally destroyed, worse than Venezuela. With him we found peace, economic stability.”
Still, there were plenty of Peruvians willing to forgive Fujimorismo. Keiko Fujimori carried her father’s torch, expanding the party’s base and sought to forge a gentler, kinder image of the movement. By many accounts, she largely succeeded.In 2011, Keiko Fujimori finished second in Peru’s presidential election. Five years later, she lost again in a razor-thin vote, coming within less than a half percentage point of defeating economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
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