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- Subject: Peru:Election to Go On,Despite Coup Attempt/ed-lp
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- from El Diario La Prensa
- 11/16 Peru
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- PERUVIAN ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE DESPITE ATTEMPTED COUP
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- Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori confirmed that elections will
- be held on November 22 despite all obstacles, and criticized those
- who want to boycott them. He referred to an attempted coup d'etat
- and assassination on Friday, November 13, the result of which was
- the arrest of 25 active and retired military leaders. He
- explained the failure of the attempt on television and gave a
- broader discourse over the radio. However, some members of the
- oppostion question whether there was ever really an attempted
- coup.
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- "I don't believe there was a coup, and there is no justification
- for the enormous apparatus which has been mounted to confuse
- public opinion eight days before the elections," said Manuel
- Moreya, head of the Solidarity and Democracy Party.
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- Fujimori said the process for the Democratic Constituent Congress
- will not be interrupted and denied requests to postpone the
- elections.
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- Fujimori told journalists that he has the support of the armed
- forces the political parties and independent movements, some 18 in
- total, who will go to the polls to elect 80 representatives to the
- Constituent Congress. He was skeptical about the boycott being
- requested by some political groups and labor unions and dismissed
- as "speculation" the possibility that the failed coup d'etat might
- give an advantage in the elections to the coalition of Cambio-90
- (Change-90) and Nueva Mayoria (New Majority).
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- The week before the elections a strike of 24 and 48 hours is
- planned by teachers and state health workers and public university
- workers to demand better salaries, among other things.
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- Two days after the alleged defeat of the attempted coup d'etat,
- the Sendero Luminoso intensified its attacks in an effort to
- terrorize Peruvians and dissuade them from going to the polls for
- the constituent assembly, to take place next week. They blew up a
- car some 300 kilometers away from the police training academy in
- Chorrillos. Ten people were wonded. A gas station was dynamited
- in the poor neighborhood of San Juan de Lurigancho. There were no
- victims. A second car bomb was deactiviated in a working class
- neighborhood, San Martin de Porres, according to a police report.
- (EFE, AP 11/16)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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