“Kiko represents the lesser of two evils.” Vargas Llosa asks to vote for Fujimori in the Peruvian election

Lima- Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa He asked Peruvians to support the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori In the poll for the presidential elections in Peru To be held in June.

“I have fought the Fujimorism system systematically, as I have done with all the dictatorships of the left or the right, but I believe that in the next elections – the second round elections – the Peruvians should vote for Keiko Fujimori, because he represents the lesser evil,” Vargas Llosa wrote in his book Weekly Column In the Spanish newspapers Country.

“With her in power, there are more possibilities to save our democracy, while with Pedro Castillo, I don’t see anything,” he added. Vargas Llosa, the leading figure in Peruvian politics who ran for president and lost in 1990 to former president Alberto Fujimori, sided with Keiko twice, in 2011 and 2016, supporting leftist Olanta Humala and the candidate. Kuchinsky.

Keiko Fujimori will face the left-wing candidate Pedro CastilloWhich surprised by getting the most votes in the first round of the presidential election on April 11th. Peru Libre, a 51-year-old union leader and elementary school teacher, has promised to reform the constitution to weaken the business elite and renegotiate contracts with mining, oil, gas and telecommunications companies.

In his column, Vargas Llosa said Peru ruled by Castillo would have “all the characteristics of a communist society” and argued that the candidate had ideas of “the extreme left in the economic sphere, and the extreme right in the social sphere.”

For her part, the leader of the Forza People’s Party indicated that, after communicating with the Nobel Prize for Literature, she expressed “her commitment to ensuring respect for democracy, freedom of expression and independence of authorities if she is elected president.”

“I appreciate the support and greetings of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa. At this time we are not only facing pestilence and hunger but we are also facing communism”, He told the press Keiko Fujimori who also thanked him on Twitter.

Keiko Fujimori is a fiercely controversial figure, whose father, former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), was imprisoned for human rights violations in the 1990s, and the presidential candidate promised to release him if he came to power.

Vargas Llosa, a vocal opponent of the Fujimori family for 30 years, asked Kiko to protect democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law and keep Montesinos in prison, but He did not refer to the pardon issue for the former president.

The Madrid-based author of The City and the Dogs last launched a campaign in 2016, when he called to vote for Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former Wall Street banker who had an opaque government who resigned in March 2018 and was punctuated by the corruption scandal of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

With all the votes counted by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the rural school teacher and the daughter of the imprisoned former president got 19.06% and 13.36%, respectively, of the votes, respectively, in the first round that she had a record of 18 candidates.

Peru is now heading to the ballot between two applicants on the opposite side, and who Together they got only 32% of the vote in the first round. The winner will take office on July 28, the date on which the country’s two hundred years of independence are celebrated, and it is currently in stagnation due to the pandemic and nearly uncontrollable since 2016.

Reuters

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