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From the old guard, only four representative members remain from the era of Alberto Fujimori: Martha Chávez, Martha Moyano, Alejandro Aguinaga, and Marco Miyashiro.
To this ‘Albertist’ group, Marvin Palma could be added, the former legislator who, in 2018, was part of Kenji Fujimori’s ‘The Avengers’ group.
Despite the numerical difference, the old guard group prefers to see it as a new stage.
“Now a symbiosis has occurred. In 2011, positions were adopted with the refoundation, but if you don’t look in the mirror of history, it’s complicated. The leader and founder is Alberto, that is now vindicated, and it is serving for the elections,” explained a source from that group.
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—Experience—
Another point that stands out about the new Fujimorist caucus is that just over 50% of its members have legislative experience. Only one of these, Jacques Rodrich, comes from a period before 2016. The rest have been present in parliamentary administrations over the last 10 years.
Added to this is a block of seven virtual congressmen who make the leap after being parliamentary advisors.
“In general, you see a well-experienced composition, where you will have important positions in the Senate with Martha Chávez and Miguel Torres, and in the deputies with Diethell Columbus and Cecilia Chacón, to name a few,” said political analyst José Carlos Requena.
“If in the past you talked about ‘Albertists’, then ‘Kenjists’ and the stage of new figures like Daniel Salaverry, today remains the jubilee environment with a unique leadership of Keiko, without factions, at least at the start,” Requena noted.
