{"id":2117,"date":"2026-07-28T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:40:18","slug":"keiko-fujimori-inaugurated-as-perus-president-following-narrow-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Keiko Fujimori inaugurated as Peru\u2019s president following narrow election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru\u2019s<\/span> president Tuesday after winning the June presidential election by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes.<\/p>\n

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Fujimori, the daughter of a former president jailed for human rights abuses, has become Peru\u2019s ninth president in a decade. The 51-year-old is hoping to stabilize its turbulent politics, while reducing crime and boosting economic growth.<\/p>\n

Over the past decade, only three of Peru\u2019s presidents have been elected by popular vote. The rest have come into office after their predecessors resigned or were removed by congress amid corruption scandals.<\/p>\n

Fujimori\u2019s Popular Force party and its main ally, Popular Renovation, will hold half the senate seats as a new legislature is installed, which will make it harder for legislators to remove the new president.<\/p>\n

Fujimori centered her campaign around promises to improve security in Peru, where extortion rackets have become a significant problem. She has also promised to develop infrastructure by making it easier for government agencies to form partnerships with private investors.<\/p>\n

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Fujimori also said during her campaign that she will fight crime with an \u201ciron fist,\u201d implementing some policies adopted by Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele. She said she would build a megaprison modeled after the notorious Cecot penitentiary in El Salvador, and will enable judges to hide their identities as they oversee criminal trials in an effort to guarantee their safety.<\/p>\n

Opposition leaders have asked Fujimori\u2019s incoming government to reverse a series of laws approved by Peru\u2019s last legislature which critics say weaken efforts to fight organized crime.<\/p>\n

The laws eliminate preventive arrests and stop prosecutors from processing political parties involved in corruption under the same statutes as criminal groups. The laws also make it harder for police to confiscate the goods of criminal groups.<\/p>\n

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Opposition leaders are also asking the incoming government to create a commission to investigate the deaths of 50 civilians during anti-government protests in late 2022 and early 2023 following the removal of former President Pedro Castillo.<\/p>\n

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Relatives of the dead have said they do not recognize Fujimori as president and that they are protesting her inauguration.<\/p>\n

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