Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who turns 86 later this month, will be the political party’s presidential candidate. People’s powerfounded by his daughter Keiko for the 2026 elections.

“My father and I talked and together we decided that he would be a presidential candidate,” the party president said.

In this video he explained that his father told him that he was “aware” of the risks run for president, but assured him he wanted to “get back into the political arena.” “I looked at the glint in his eye and said, ‘Well, he’s going to be in politics until the day he dies,'” he said.

“I think he’s the one who should go forward. I would let my father be the leader of this presidential team,” he said, before emphasizing that his father “is an oak tree, and his strength gives us strength.”

The country’s former leader was released in December 2023 from prison, where he had been serving a 25-year sentence since 2007. massacre of dozens of civilians in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta.

In 2017, he took advantage of a humanitarian pardon granted by then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as his legal team argued he had health problems due to his advanced age, but a judge overturned it months later until a final decision was made last year.

In addition to this sentence, Fujimori faces another criminal trial, along with several health ministers, for the forced sterilization of nearly 350,000 women and 25,000 men from various indigenous communities during his rule.

He did not repent of his crimes. He also failed to pay civil damages, which the Attorney General’s Office estimated at 57 million soles, equivalent to more than 260 million Mexican pesos.

After years of legal proceedings, the Constitutional Court ordered his release, despite a request from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to postpone the measure.

Human rights groups warned of the seriousness of his crimes as the decision to release him was made. (Europa Press)