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Fujimori’s Relentless Pursuit of Re-election

On April 9, 2000, Peruvians will go to the polls to elect a new president and Congress. But chances are good that the new president will not be so new. Since handily winning re-election in 1995, President Alberto Fujimori and his cohorts within the National Intelligence Service (SIN) have put into place what appears to be a systematic plan to ensure Fujimori's reelection to a third term in office. That plan includes removing legal impediments to an unconstitutional third term, gaining control over the electoral agencies charged with carrying out and overseeing the electoral process, and tilting the electoral playing field such that it heavily favors the present incumbent. The 1993 Constitution extended the number of terms a president could run for office from one to two. When Fujimori launched his 1995 electoral campaign, critics complained that he could not run for a second term because he was first elected in 1990 under a constitution that did not allow for re-election. Despite the controversy, Fujimori ran and won. Just one year into that term, Congress passed Law 26657, which provides an "authentic interpretation of the Constitution"-a heretofore unknown legal concept-which essentially discounts his 1990 election, as it took place prior to the adoption of the 1993 Constitution. Hence, his second term is really just his first term, and in 2000 he can run for a second term, even though it is really his third term. Jurists pointed out that the Congress has no authority to interpret the Constitution. Civil society organizations pointed out that one plus one plus one equals three, not two. But the intentions of the congressional majority were made painfully clear, and from that point on it continued to take actions to ensure that