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Peru’s Fujimori likely to run in upper house elections
Former Peruvian President Albert Fujimori, now under house arrest in Chile, is likely to run in the Japanese upper house elections in July, sources close to the matter said Wednesday, NTV, Kyodo, Washinton Post etc reported.
“I want to make use of my 10-year experienec as president to work for Japan and the world”, he was quoted by the NTV Network. Fujimori is expected to announce his decision Thursday morning Japan time, running for a minor Japanese opposition party, the People’s New Party (PNP).
Fujimori is currently under house arrest in Chile, but will possibly be extradited to Peru, where he is facing corruption charges as well as accusations of having sanctioned death squad killings during presidency, which ended in 2000.
According to NTV, one of Fujimori’s top priorities is to persuade North Korea to give up it’s nuclear weapons program and to return the Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents in the 60’s and 70’s.
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