LIMA, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Peru's Yes, He Fulfils Party (SCM) on Friday registered exiled former leader Alberto Fujimori as its presidential candidate in defiance of a 10-year ban by the congress.

    Fujimori's eldest daughter Keiko, along with more than 1,000 supporters, registered the 67-year-old ex-president with the National Election Panel, which said it would soon decide whether or not to accept his candidacy.

    The SCM also put two vice-presidential candidates on the list to run in the April elections: Maria Cuculiza, former women and social development minister; and German Kruger, former mayor of Lima Municipality Miraflores.

    The party began the process for Fujimori's candidature, running counter to a law passed by the congress and ratified by the Constitutional Tribunal to ban him from working in any public office until 2011.

    After the registration, Keiko expressed thanks to her father's supporters gathering around the election offices.

    "This is a historic day," she declared, pledging Fujimori would return to Peru and would enter the presidential palace once again.     

    She also called on supporters to resist the political persecution suffered by the leaders of her father's party.

    Waving flags, the crowd of supporters chanted: "No one can stop Fujimori!"

    Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, was put in jail after arriving in Chile on a private plane from Japan on Nov. 7, 2005. He was planning to make a comeback in the 2006 presidential campaign.

    Peru has sought Fujimori's extradition, but Chilean judges said the process could last from six months to a year.

    Fujimori faces 20 criminal charges including conspiracy, human rights abuses and embezzlement. He had been in exile in Japan since 2000, when his government collapsed amid corruption allegations. Enditem