Keiko Fujimori

Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi (Japanese藤森 恵 子, Keiko Fujimori ) ( born May 25, 1975 in Lima) is a Peruvian politician.

Private life

Fujimori's parents are the former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi, the former congressman. She is married to Mark Vito Villa Ella, a US- American who has adopted in 2009 the Peruvian citizenship. They have two daughters: Kyara Sofia, born in 2007 and Kaori Marcela, born 2009.

Keiko graduated from high school graduation in 1992 at the Sagrados Corazones Recoleta in Lima. The following year she went to the U.S. to study business administration. She started at Stony Brook University and received her Bachelor 1997 at Boston University.

Policy

In August 1994, after the divorce of her parents, she was appointed by her father to the " First Lady" of Peru. At the age of 19 years, during her studies, she was the youngest First Lady of the American continent. Following the resignation of her father Keiko stayed in Peru until 2004, and then obtained a Master of Business Administration ( MBA) at Columbia University in New York. However, she interrupted her studies in 2005 to return to Peru after the delivery process has been initiated against her father. She became leader of the political group, Fujimorista '. In April 2006, she was elected with the most votes for Congress.

As a Congressman and chairman of the party Keiko has been used in the following changes under her father especially for tightening of security laws. Under her leadership of the opposition, a law was proposed, for example, limiting donations for inmates who have committed serious crimes. Furthermore, it was suggested by her an additional law, which judges the obligation to impose maximum penalties for repeat offenders. Together with other Fujimorista Congressman they currently working on a draft law with which the death penalty for extremely serious crimes could be applied.

2011 election campaign

In 2009, Keiko Fujimori started to collect signatures to their own political party, Fuerza 2011 form, can. In March 2010, the competent department " Jurado Nacional Electoral ' ( National Committee for elections ) recognized the party to formally after more than a million signatures were collected throughout the country.

The latest opinion polls acknowledged their high chances of winning the election of 2011. They would thus have been the first female president in the history of Peru. During the campaign, she spoke out in favor of liberalized economic policies and stricter security policy. Among other things, private investment should be encouraged, introduced the death penalty and more prisons are built.

During the election campaign, she was criticized for little respect for human rights. It has been repeatedly publicly speculated whether it is a primary objective of the candidacy Keiko Fujimori and generally the Fuerza 2011 was to free her father from prison. To these assumptions oppose Fujimori mid-April 2011 told the press as saying: "Yo juro por Dios que no voy a indultar a Alberto Fujimori " ( German: " I swear by God that I will Alberto Fujimori not pardon " ). A corresponding assertion of the vice presidential candidate of their party was preceded by this statement. The runoff election against the politician Ollanta Humala has early June 2011, narrowly lost.