On Sunday 5th June, Peru will see a second round of elections for the presidency of the Republic, between candidates Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. On the 12th of April, with 95.32% of votes officially counted, the Popular Forces party led by the daughter of a dictator convicted and imprisoned for crimes against humanity and corruption, Alberto Fujimori, went on to the second round with 39.74% of votes. The party furthermore constitutes the primary political force in Congress, enjoying an extraordinary majority. This also means that proposals for a new constitution are increasingly distant, as fujimorismo will defend the present one as the principal legacy of the dictator. If Keiko Fujimori becomes president, proposals for human rights and civil rights will be frozen in Congress, and the communities of those historically excluded will be in grave danger.
Second place went to the Peruvians for Change party led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who accumulated 21.04% of the votes; in this case there were proposals for human and civil rights, in particular for the LGBT community, including:
Civil union, incorporating the rights of the LGBT community in the National Human Rights Plan, the establishment of a register for victims of aggression due to sexual orientation and gender identity and a law against hate crimes.
The left, in the form of the Frente Amplio led by Veronika Mendoza, secured 18.79% of the vote, regaining a sturdy parliamentary role after decades, as leftist congressmen previously had entered parliament through the current ruling party.
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