One might think that Ms. Fujimori, as heir to an organization with close ties to many people who were part of her father’s regime, might have trouble obtaining a respectable result, let alone dominating the first round of a presidential election. What happened? The common explanations are not without merit. Yes, Ms. Fujimori has worked hard under the radar to turn her father’s highly personalized, informal structure into a political machine with national roots; she has publicly reneged on some of the dark legacy of the 1990s dictatorship; and she even prevented some of her father’s closest supporters from running for Congress.
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