"We are a responsible team, ready to govern and we want the best for the country," said Humala, who is popular especially among the Andean country's poorest. Fujimori, a divisive figure due to her father's controversial presidency, did not agree.
"His plans show that he has not changed his radical ideas which would be a big step backward for our country," she said, adding: "I am ready to defeat him." Her father, Alberto Fujimori, was Peru's president from 1990 to 2000. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, he fled to Japan in the midst of a massive corruption scandal, and Lima spent years unsuccessfully trying to convince Tokyo to extradite him. Chile, where Fujimori was arrested while travelling, extradited him to Peru in 2007, and in 2009 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses.