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# Fujimori 2006
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18758/
- Published: 2005-12-31T15:12:41.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:34:37.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

I was in Peru on Thursday, on a quick stopover on the way to Bolivia, and was surprised in Lima to see a giant house-sized banner in support of former president Alberto Fujimori for president in 2006\. He is currently [under arrest](http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1402909&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Chile after years of exile in Japan. Peru wants him extradited on 20 counts of human rights abuse and corruption charges committed during his decade-long presidency. This, apparently, isn't holding him back from mounting a campaign for elections in April, nor is a tribunal decision that says he can't - [yet](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4512732.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net). His daughter [Keiko](http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1402909&ref=opendemocracy.net) will be heading an alliance of pro-Fujimori parties. Could he win? "Yes," says my taxi driver, "Because he did many good things for the country." [ABC News quotes](http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1402909&ref=opendemocracy.net) Ernesto de la Jara from a Lima think tank: "Peruvians are nostalgic for someone like Fujimori," he says. "The attitude is: 'Fujimori was corrupt, and also killed and robbed - but at least he also built us some roads.'" Let's hope voters ask for more and better.