Overview
- Keiko Fujimori took the oath before Congress on Tuesday, July 28, completing a comeback that returned the Fujimori political movement to the presidency after a razor-thin June runoff victory.
- She named an initial cabinet that includes Elmer Cuba as economy minister and Carlos Espa as foreign minister and held a 90-minute first meeting that produced a request to Congress for authority to approve security measures.
- The security package the government seeks would deploy the military to high-crime areas, allow anonymous judges in criminal cases, expand detainee labor and pursue deportations of undocumented migrants as tools against extortion and gang violence.
- Fuerza Popular enters the new term as the largest bloc in the restored bicameral Congress, giving Fujimori legislative leverage but requiring negotiation because right-wing allies still lack a working majority to pass all measures alone.
- Relatives of victims of state violence, human-rights groups and leftist lawmakers have vowed protests and raised concerns that the proposed tactics risk repeating abuses from her father Alberto Fujimori’s 1990s rule, while supporters say tough action is needed to curb soaring crime.