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Kenji Fujimori: “For the love of my Father”

who, above all the political capital that
all this can cost him, has put the love he
has for his father above all.
Therefore, on Christmas Eve, the Presi-
dency of Peru issued a statement grant-
ing a pardon to the ex-President Alberto
Fujimori of 79 years of age and who was
serving a sentence of 25 years in prison.
The President of Peru, using his powers,
which is conferred by the Constitution,
has decided to grant humanitarian par-
don to Alberto Fujimori and seven other
inmates," the presidential statement
said.
It all began with the transfer of former
President Fujimori to a hospital for high
blood pressure and from the same in-
tensive care room came the news of the
presidential pardon.

President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congressman Kenji Fujimori
Kenji has fought for many years to seek
Editor John Perez dent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski remained in clemency from his father and was pre-
In the midst of one of the most difficult power. All this political maneuver did sented with the perfect opportunity. Kenji
political conflicts that Peru has experi- not come for the love of art, everything did not miss the opportunity to return the
enced, which had the intention of cre- was handled with the due political as- freedom to his father.
ating the presidential vacancy because tuteness of Congressman Kenji Fujimori,
of links of the current President Pedro
Pablo Kuczynski with the Odebrecht
firm, it was considered as a fact that
Peru was going to have a new president,
since the opposition groups led by
Fuerza Popular had already reconciled
an agreement between all the opposi-
tion parties to get the votes and create
the vacancy.
All of Peru and the rest of the world was
surprised when Congressman Kenji Fu-
jimori led an internal revolt along with
9 other congressmen and allowed the
vacancy vote to fail and with this Presi-
Former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori pardoned on Christmas Eve

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