"I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process"
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It’s the kind of sentence that sounds like reassurance until you notice who it’s really addressed to: not voters, but “the international community.” Fujimori isn’t trying to persuade citizens that an election is legitimate; he’s trying to pre-emptively manage outside scrutiny with the bureaucratic balm of “framework” and “law.” The phrasing performs legality rather than proving it, relying on institutional vocabulary as a substitute for transparency.
The grammar does quiet work. “I expect” is both prediction and pressure: an implied demand that others fall in line once “results” arrive. “Will understand” casts any doubt as ignorance or misunderstanding, not principled objection. And the repeated, clunky “process” turns politics into procedure, as if contested power can be neutralized by paperwork. It’s the language of a leader who knows legitimacy is not only won at the ballot box but negotiated in the court of global opinion.
Context sharpens the edge. Fujimori’s presidency was defined by a hardline security agenda and the steady concentration of executive authority, culminating in the 1992 self-coup and a state apparatus that mixed counterinsurgency with heavy-handed control. Against that backdrop, invoking “under which law” reads less like civic pride than defensive legalism: a promise that the rules exist, paired with an unspoken confidence that he controls which rules count.
The intent is strategic: frame the election as compliant before anyone can frame it as compromised. The subtext: legitimacy will be declared after the fact, and dissent will be treated as a failure to “understand” the system that produced the outcome.
The grammar does quiet work. “I expect” is both prediction and pressure: an implied demand that others fall in line once “results” arrive. “Will understand” casts any doubt as ignorance or misunderstanding, not principled objection. And the repeated, clunky “process” turns politics into procedure, as if contested power can be neutralized by paperwork. It’s the language of a leader who knows legitimacy is not only won at the ballot box but negotiated in the court of global opinion.
Context sharpens the edge. Fujimori’s presidency was defined by a hardline security agenda and the steady concentration of executive authority, culminating in the 1992 self-coup and a state apparatus that mixed counterinsurgency with heavy-handed control. Against that backdrop, invoking “under which law” reads less like civic pride than defensive legalism: a promise that the rules exist, paired with an unspoken confidence that he controls which rules count.
The intent is strategic: frame the election as compliant before anyone can frame it as compromised. The subtext: legitimacy will be declared after the fact, and dissent will be treated as a failure to “understand” the system that produced the outcome.
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| Topic | Justice |
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