Marriages are rarely news-worthy for me. But this one is special for several reasons. First, Fujimori is a former president of Peru and would like to become president again. Second, he is currently imprisoned in Chile where the courts are evaluating if they can extradite him to Peru. Third, his party is campaigning and would like to get some Fujimori people elected into congress. They also have a candiate for the presidency but she has not much hope to get elected.
So out from his prison, Fujimori now married a Japanese woman (Fujimori is Japanese as well). Many Peruvians see this as a move to get his party some more sympathy votes. Personally I think so myself, because the timing is just “too perfect” and Fujimori too political.
The elections are on Sunday.