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Weekly Report - 19 May 2016 (WR-16-19)

PERU: Corruption scandal could swing balance for Kuczynski

Keiko Fujimori has spent a good part of the election campaign ahead of her second-round showdown with Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on 5 June seeking to reassure voters that she is not her father. She insists that while Fujimorismo became a byword for corruption and authoritarianism under the governments of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), she is squeaky clean and a bona fide democrat. The scale of her task was underlined this week when it emerged that the secretary general of her Fuerza Popular (FP) party, Deputy Joaquín Ramírez, is the subject of an investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The allegation by a former Peruvian pilot and ex DEA agent, Jesús Vásquez, that Ramírez laundered US$15m for Keiko damages her credibility, and the timing is designed to have a devastating impact when nothing splits her and Kuczynski in the polls.

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