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In this Jan. 24, 2018 file photo, former President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva greets supporters during a visit to the metallurgic
syndicate headquarters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.
Associated Press
Former Brazilian

president leads poll Congressman Kenji Fujimori arrives for a press conference at the Legislative Palace, to speak on

despite conviction his expulsion from the Peruvian political party loyal to his father, former President Alberto Fujimori
and that is led by Kenji’s sister, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.
Associated Press

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former which had a margin of er- Ex-strongman’s son in Peru
Brazilian President Luiz Ina- ror of 2 percentage points,
cio Lula da Silva enjoys a da Silva would also defeat
Oct.7 presidential elections in an Oct. 28 runoff elec- to form own bloc in congress
strong lead ahead of the all other likely candidates
despite his recent convic- tion that would be held if
tion on corruption charges, no single candidate wins a LIMA, Peru (AP) — The son dent’s approval and initi- from the vote was part of a
according to a poll pub- majority in the first round. of former strongman Al- ate investigations against deal with Kuczynski to free
lished Wednesday. A congressman of the berto Fujimori is creating officials. Juan Sheput, a his father.
The Datafolha poll was the conservative Social Liberal his own bloc in Peru’s con- member of Kuczynski’s par- Both Kenji Fujimori and Kuc-
first since an appeals court Party, Bolsonaro is a former gress after being kicked out ty, predicted Wednesday’s zynski have denied having
last week upheld a corrup- army paratrooper who has of the party led by his sister, announcement will pave any such agreement.
tion conviction against da vowed to wipe out corrup- a move that significantly the way for Alberto Fujimori The pardon has sparked
Silva — a decision likely to tion and crime and get the weakens the opposition’s to have a voice in congress periodic protests through-
knock him out of conten- economy growing again. clout as it moves past its through his son. out Peru as angry relatives
tion. He has alarmed critics with failed attempt to impeach “It will change the political of those killed by state se-
The survey indicated that if fierce opposition to gay the nation’s president. geography of congress,” curity agents during Fuji-
da Silva were running now, rights and abortion. Kenji Fujimori said Wednes- he said. The upheaval is the mori’s rule clamor for him to
he would get between 34 If da Silva isn’t allowed to day that he and nine other result of continuing discord stay behind bars.
and 37 percent of votes run, Bolsonaro tops the first lawmakers from the Popu- between the politician chil- United Nations human
in the first round. That’s a round with 18 to 20 percent lar Will party will now sup- dren of Alberto Fujimori. rights experts decried the
comfortable lead over of votes in the survey. But port President Pedro Pablo Daughter Keiko Fujimori pardon as a “slap in the
right-wing candidate Jair he trails in a runoff behind Kuczynski, the deeply un- lost narrowly to Kuczyn- face” to victims.
Bolsonaro, with 16 to 18 Marina Silva, a former envi- popular leader who nar- ski in the 2016 presidential When Alberto Fujimori led
percent of the vote. ronment minister under da rowly escaped impeach- runoff election and under Peru nearly two decades
According to the poll, Silva, Datafolha said.q ment just before Christmas her leadership Popular Will ago it was common to
when the dissident faction has repeatedly stymied the see Kenji, his youngest
Officials: Trucker abstained from voting. president’s government. son, traveling beside him
Kenji Fujimori, however, ex-
Standing alongside his col-
or completing schoolwork
damaged part of Peru’s leagues, the 37-year-old pressed interest in “building in the presidential office.
Keiko Fujimori, meanwhile,
Fujimori said, “We are fight-
bridges” with Kuczynski.
ing for freedom of con-
Just days after dodging im-
served as Peru’s first lady for
prized Nazca lines science, the freedom of peachment, Kuczynski par- six years after her parents
expression, (and) against doned Alberto Fujimori from divorced.
systematic abuses that we a 25-year prison sentence Alberto Fujimori has kept a
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Authori- etchings depicting imagi- have been the victims of, for human rights abuses low profile since his release,
ties in Peru have detained nary figures, creatures and abuses against our found- and corruption committed apologizing to Peruvians in
a truck driver accused plants that were scratched ing leader, my father, the during his decade-long rule a video posted on his Twit-
of damaging part of the on the surface of a coastal engineer Alberto Fujimori.” in the 1990s. ter account from his hospi-
world-renowned Nazca desert between 1,500 and The rift between Kenji Fu- Many Peruvians believe tal bed but largely remain-
lines. 2,000 years ago. jimori and his sister, Keiko Kenji Fujimori’s abstention ing silent.q
The nation’s Ministry of They are believed to have Fujimori, means Popular Will
Culture says Jainer Flores had ritual astronomical is dropping to 61 seats in
drove into an unauthorized purposes. the 130-member congress,
section of the U.N. World Greenpeace activists dam- taking away the “absolute
Heritage site on Saturday, aged the lines by leaving majority” that allowed its
leaving tracks and damag- footprints in the adjacent lawmakers to pass decrees
ing part of three lines. desert during an event in even without the presi-
The Nazca lines are huge 2014.q