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(18 Aug 2001) SHOTLIST :

File - April 1998
1. Amateur video of Vladimiro Montesinos meeting with Pro-Fujimori congressmen

Lima - August 16
2. Zoomout of vote in Congress
3. Medium shot of public celebrating the outcome
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carmen Lozada de Gamboa, Congresswoman from Partido Cambio 90:
"In this country there is a tremendous amount of persecution (political), we are victims of the most cruel persecution, no one could stand our being part of the body and this is why they threw us out of Congress. But I will not go down easily, in this country we have to voice and make sure these unilateral things don't happen again."
5. Carmen Lozada de Gamboa walks out of Congress under heavy security
6. Closeup of person screaming
7. Wideshot of people celebrating the exit of two congresswomen
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martha Chavez, Congresswoman from Partido Cambio 90:
"We are punishing two congress members for the same reason we are punishing Carlos Ferrero, the President of the Congress, for meeting with Montesinos, he did it five times."
9. Pan across Congress.
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Diezcanseco, Congressman from Partido Union Por El Peru:
"The autonomy of the electoral base placed a regime of thieves in power, the mafia Fujimorista (Alberto Fujimori) which managed this nation under the power we have seen on the videos and on the testimonies of those processed by the justice system."
11. Medium shot of congressmen
12. Medium shot of Congresswomen Carmen Lozada, Martha Chavez and Luz Salgado
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge del Castillo, Congressman for Partido Aprista:
"In this case these persons answered to the powers of darkness, the power of corruption in Peru. The corrupt bought people's conscience and killed the good intentions of many Peruvians."
14. Medium shot of Congresswoman Luz Salgado arguing with other members of the body
15. Wide shot of exterior of Peruvian Congress

STORYLINE:

Peru's Congress has voted to kick out two congresswomen loyal to ex-President Alberto Fujimori and to bar them from holding public office for five years.

In a 65-1 vote, with three abstentions, lawmakers late on Thursday censured Luz Salgado and Carmen Lozada, longtime stalwarts in Fujimori's New Majority-Change 90 political coalition.

They were allegedly part of a plot to circumvent a referendum that would have prevented Fujimori's constitutionally questionable re-election bid last year.

"We are victims of political persecution for defending our ideas and the good government of Fujimori," Lozada told radio station Radioprogramas.

Thirteen ex-legislators and two former ministers also were barred from holding public office until 2006.

The politicians all took part in an April 1998 meeting, covertly videotaped, that showed now-jailed intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos mapping out Fujimori's election victory.

Fujimori won last year in a fraud-riddled vote arranged by Montesinos, but fled to his parents' homeland, Japan, as corruption scandals surrounding his ex-spy chief sank his government.

The two congresswomen will be replaced by other members of their party who received fewer votes in elections last April.

For eight years, Fujimori enjoyed a majority in the 120-seat Congress that rubber-stamped his policies.

Montesinos is accused of securing much of that support with favours, bribes and coercion.

Fujimori's supporters were reduced to three seats in this year's elections.

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