South China Morning Post
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Keiko Fujimori sworn in as president of Peru following narrow election victory
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s ninth president in a decade at an official ceremony in Lima on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse journalists observed.
The conservative 51-year-old won June’s run-off by fewer than 50,000 votes and will govern until 2031.
Fujimori, the daughter of a former president jailed for human rights abuses, will become Peru’s ninth president in a decade. The 51-year-old is hoping to stabilise the country’s turbulent politics.
Over the past decade, only three of Peru’s...
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