Lawyer Cesar Azabache He spoke about the possible candidacy of Alberto Fujimori in the 2026 elections. The lawyer specialized in criminal matters recalled that there is no information that the father of Keiko Fujimori He renounced his Japanese nationality despite running for parliament in that country in 2007, when he was in Chile facing extradition proceedings.
On this, he mentions that although Fujimori In January of this year he renewed his registration Reniec It is noted that no new information was added.
“Japanese nationality is acquired by registration in the Koseki of an original family. To exercise it, those born outside the territory must renounce the nationality they have obtained in their place of origin before reaching the age of 22,” said criminal lawyer César Azabache.
“In Peru, Fujimori He is registered as having been born in Miraflores, Lima, in 1938. Therefore, in order to retain his Japanese nationality, Fujimori had to renounce his Peruvian nationality in 1960 or at least before running for the Japanese Parliament,” he added.
In this criticism, the lawyer stated that the data of his candidacy for the Japanese Parliament should confirm whether Alberto Fujimori renounced his Peruvian nationality when registering his candidacy or before.
But, in addition, he indicated that they should confirm whether, according to his family’s Koseki, he was born in Miraflores on July 26 or 28, 1938, or before, somewhere else.
“Alberto Fujimori “He ran for the Japanese parliamentary elections in 2007. We do not know what information he presented about his own biography or his nationality. But since he has announced a new candidacy in Peru, we have acquired the right to know what he said about himself on that occasion and what exactly his family’s Koseki says about him,” he said.
Alberto Fujimori announced his candidacy for the 2026 elections.
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Azabache in a broadcast for La República, stated that, in July 2007, Cecilia Valenzuela published the immigration file of the mother of Alberto Fujimoriidentified as Mutsué. She alleged that in that document, written in 1934, she declared that she had two children, Alberto and Juana.
“In any case, Alberto Fujimori could not have been registered alive in 1934 if he was born in 1938,” says Azabache, who states that “a simple review of Fujimori’s biography shows that the two oldest were Alberto and Juana, who was Peru’s ambassador to Japan between 1990 and 1992, so the Foreign Ministry must keep important information about the data with which she was registered by the Japanese authorities.”
“We don’t know whether or not he renounced his Peruvian citizenship when he did so. We also don’t know if his family’s Koseki says anything about his birth before July 1938, the year he registered in Lima. But if he plans to apply again, we need to know,” the criminal lawyer said.
