Economy & Business - July 2026

Keiko Fujimori will take office as Peru’s new president on 28 July after winning the narrowest of victories in the 7 June run-off election. This was fourth time lucky for Fujimori and marks the culmination of a 15-year march towards the presidency. She inherits an immensely divided country in which the majority of voters residing within Peru voted for her left-wing rival, Roberto Sánchez. As Fujimori becomes Peru’s ninth president in 10 years, the main question hanging over her is whether she can arrest the country’s chronic political instability – which has been driven in large part by the congressional manoeuvres of her right-wing Fuerza Popular (FP).