Keiko Fujimori was inaugurated on July 28, taking the oath of office before Peru’s Congress. The conservative leader is now the country’s ninth president in a decade, having won a razor‑thin victory that separated her from left‑wing candidate Roberto Sánchez by merely 50,000 votes. Promptly after her inauguration, Fujimori announced her cabinet appointments and introduced new policies focused on combating crime, as Peru grapples with its most severe security crisis in recent decades.
