Peru presidential candidates vow to fight COVID, run for single term

STORY: Peru Presidential Candidates - Peru presidential candidates vow to fight COVID, run for single term

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TYPE: Spanish/Natsound

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

STORY NUMBER: 4326347

DATELINE: 17 May 2021 - Lima

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lima - 17 May 2021

1. Media and police outside medical college where proclamation document is being signed by presidential candidates Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori

2. Various of Castillo supporters outside college playing music and holding banner reading (Spanish) "Youth for the teacher"

3. Vehicle carrying Castillo arriving surrounded by media and supporters

4. Vehicle carrying Fujimori arriving

5. Various of Castillo supporters dancing

6. Castillo arriving inside auditorium

7. Media

8. Fujimori arriving inside auditorium

9. Castillo and Fujimori bumping first

10. Wide of Castillo and Fujimori

11. Catholic Cardinal Pedro Barreto giving instructions to Castillo and Fujimori

12. Various of Castillo and Fujimori singing Peruvian national anthem

13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Barreto, Catholic Cardinal:

"The basic guarantees subject of the solemn and public oath that Mrs. Keiko Fujimori and Mr. Pedro Castillo have agreed to make, in essence, have the elements for a true democracy."

14. Wide of Castillo and Fujimori

15. Castillo and Fujimori observing a minute of silence in memory of the victims of COVID-19

16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Castillo, Peruvian presidential candidate of the Libre party:

"It vowed to implement, immediately, the maximum efforts of the state and others in the country to defeat the pandemic, through effective, scientifically based strategies for the prevention of contagion, the application of treatments and universal vaccination, developing the greatest employment to address the tragic situation of poverty and hunger caused by the pandemic."

17. Castillo signing proclamation document

18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian presidential candidate of the Fuerza Popular party:

"I vow to leave power after July 28, 2026, and not seek or attempt any mechanism of re-election. I vow that any reform, including that of the Constitution, will only be done through the existing constitutional and legal mechanisms."

19. Fujimori signing proclamation

20. Castillo and Fujimori touching the Peruvian flag and showing signed documents

21. Castillo and Fujimori bumping fists as they leave

STORYLINE:

The two candidates to be the next president of Peru each vowed Monday to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and not seek re-election should they take office.

Leftist Pedro Castillo and right-wing Keiko Fujimori signed a document making 12 declarations, including respecting the rights of "minorities and the marginalized" groups in a country accustomed to their leaders failing to deliver on their promises.

Both candidates swore in front of Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto, who was representing the requests of the Peruvian Catholic Church, the union of evangelical Christian churches and human rights organizations.

Later Monday, Fujimori was denied permission to travel to Ecuador for a political forum over ongoing charges of money laundering.

A prosecutor has requested 30 years in prison for the 45-year-old, who is accused of laundering money she received for her 2011 and 2016 presidential campaigns which she lost.

Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and other Peruvian millionaires have told the prosecution that they gave money for Fujimori's campaigns.

She has denied all charges.

All polls ahead of the June 6 vote show Castillo in first place, but Fujimori has started to get closer and the results are uncertain, according to experts.

Whoever accumulates the most votes will take over July 28 when Peru reaches 200 years of independence from Spain.

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