Depending on how you count the interim and impeached leaders who've cycled through the Peruvian palace since 2016, Keiko Fujimori is either the ninth or the tenth person to hold the job in a decade — a number that says more about Peru's revolving-door politics than about anything in her own agenda.
Fujimori used her inaugural address to frame her presidency less as a set of promises and more as a stopwatch. She told Congress that exactly 1,826 days remained in her term — the precise length of five years — and closed her remarks by declaring, "the clock has started running." The newly elected president outlined seven national objectives, with organized crime and the looming El Niño weather pattern declared the two most urgent.
