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Peru's controversial election process looks set to provoke new street protests in Lima - and a painful decision in Washington. Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates...
...payments didn't, and the mortgage company moved to foreclose. That's when his Chapter 13 case collapsed--as happens in two-thirds of all Chapter 13 proceedings--and he was switched to Chapter 7. Now he's awaiting his discharge. He will lose his home and move to Toledo, where he will live with a niece. "I wasn't planning to move," he says. "It hurts. I don't want to be nobody's responsibility because I've always been my own man all my life...
...trouble in Peru is just beginning. Three days of ballot tallies ended last Wednesday in the announcement that a runoff vote would take place in June between the two leading candidates for the Peruvian presidency, incumbent Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader Alejandro Toledo. President Fujimori is vying for his third straight term in office, but his campaign has been recently marred by allegations of corruption. Most recently, it is likely that Fujimori tampered with the ballots. When "official" election returns suggested a Fujimori victory--even though exit polls 12 hours earlier indicated that the Peruvian president would not have...
...results. These would not be ineffectual threats. The economic situation in Peru is delicate. Although Fujimori was able to reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut Fujimori's already dwindling support base...
...chaos when Fujimori first came to office--it is time that they move away from autocratic, superficial democratic rule, toward true national consensus-building. In this new age, dissolving Congress and the Supreme Court, as Fujimori did in 1992, is not acceptable. Whether Peruvian voters choose Fujimori or Toledo in June, one hopes that their ballots will reflect a justified confidence in the integrity of the electoral system...