Peruvian General Election, 2011

Squall Leonhart

Tomorrow's (June 5) election day in Peru, so if you live in Peru, go out there and vote! It's your right and it's the future of your country at stake. The main candidates are Keiko Fujimori (Force 2011) and Ollanta Humala (Peruvian Nationalist Party). Here's some info on the candidates and what they support/oppose.

Keiko Fujimori
Fujimori supports making Peru a safer place to live and improving the quality of law enforcement within the country. She also supports boosting tourism, building roads, ports, and airports within the country. Additionally, she supports creating more jobs and increasing the quality of the education system.

Ollanta Humala
Humala supports starting over entirely and creating a new government, which he plans to call the "Second Republic of Peru". He seeks to end corruption and improving the level of education. He supports busting monopolies and the creation of a socialist health care system.

Argus

Let's say theoretically that I have absolutely no knowledge of the politics of Peru other than that it's somewhere in South America and at some point rebelled against Spain and declared its independence... care to explain how things work down there?

SageinaRage

I imagine it's always an interesting election when one of the candidate's planks is 'I will dissolve and restart the government'.

MrIamMe

"Where I shall rule a benevolent overlord, as my idol, Kim Jong Il"

Robman

Man Peru

Bolivia has the funny hats

I kind of feel I watched something about Peru during the Top Gear South America special

dojango

For some reason, I thought Fujimori was the guy who crushed the Shining Path and ruled with a firm hand until he was ousted on corruption charges... maybe 6 years ago? Didn't he flee to Japan?

This must be a different Fujimori.

Sparvy

dojango wrote: »

For some reason, I thought Fujimori was the guy who crushed the Shining Path and ruled with a firm hand until he was ousted on corruption charges... maybe 6 years ago? Didn't he flee to Japan?

This must be a different Fujimori.

Its the daughter

EDIT: And I believe he is in prison in Peru

rockrnger

OP is kinda weak sauce.

Care to elaborate?

juice for jesus

dojango wrote: »

For some reason, I thought Fujimori was the guy who crushed the Shining Path and ruled with a firm hand until he was ousted on corruption charges... maybe 6 years ago? Didn't he flee to Japan?

This must be a different Fujimori.

Alberto Fujimori did flee to Japan, then visited Chile (derp) and was arrested and extradited to Peru.

Honk

Could Keiko, theoretically if elected, pardon her father and get him released?

Pi-r8

So the socialist, new republic guy won. Any news yet on whether he's really going to make a new constitution?

Kalkino

Keiko started back tracking on the pardoning question in any event