Keiko Fujimori’s Party Wins Senate Presidency in Peru Ahead of Presidential Inauguration
Miguel Torres won with 30 of 60 votes as Popular Force and Popular Renewal secured the chamber’s top posts ahead of Fujimori’s inauguration.
- On Sunday, Miguel Torres was elected president of Peru's Senate with 30 votes out of 60 through an alliance between President-elect Keiko Fujimori's Popular Force party and the Popular Renewal party, whose member Alejandro Muñante won first vice presidency.
- Reinstating the bicameral system for the first time in more than three decades, Congress is defining its leadership two days before President-elect Fujimori's July 28, 2026 inauguration for the 2026-2031 term.
- Torres, a lawyer and politician, will preside over the Senate for one year and also serves as Peru's second vice president-elect, having been elected alongside first vice president Luis Galarreta.
- During his swearing-in ceremony, Torres stated the goal is to have a "more prudent" state and regain citizen trust amid Peru's governance crisis that has seen eight presidents in the last decade.
- The lower house, composed of 130 deputies, will elect its leadership in the coming hours as Congress officially begins its annual legislative session on Monday.
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Keiko Fujimori’s party wins Senate presidency in Peru ahead of presidential inauguration
The party led by Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori has won the Senate presidency in an alliance with another conservative party and is paving the way for the incoming government.
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eldiariodechihuahua.mxKeiko Fujimori's People's Force party assumed the presidency of Per's Senate in a conservative alliance, leading up to the new government.
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Keiko Fujimori's party wins Senate presidency in Peru ahead of presidential inauguration
The party led by Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori has won the Senate presidency in an alliance with another conservative party and is paving the way for the incoming government.
The party of President-elect Keiko Fujimori, Fuerza Popular, and Popular Renewal have assumed the presidency of the new Peruvian Senate. Fuerza Popular, in alliance with the right-wing Popular Renewal party, won the election to lead the upper house for the 2026-2027 term. Fujimorist Miguel Torres was sworn in as president of the legislative body and of Parliament after a close race against the center-left bloc. The election required a runoff aft…
Fuerza Popular, the party of the elected president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, will preside over the Senate's board of directors for the period 2026-2027 together with the ultra-rightist formation Renovación Popular after winning this Sunday the proposal of the center and left in a quarrelsome vote in the upper house. Thus, the second vice president elected, the [...] La entrada Fujimorismo y la ultrarighta preside the new Senate of Peru was first …
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