Thousands occupied Lima’s Plaza Dos de Mayo on Thursday as the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), the country’s largest union federation, rallied against president-elect Keiko Fujimori, warning her incoming government could gut workers’ rights won by years of struggle. Fujimori’s campaign promised a platform modeled explicitly on her father, former dictator Alberto Fujimori’s market reforms in the 1990s that dismantled worker protections and sent poverty soaring. “We tell Mrs Keiko Fujimori that she should listen to the working class; she has to listen to the Peruvian people who demand better working conditions,” said organizer and CGTP General Secretary Geronimo Lopez.

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