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Cabinet sworn in July 28
Keiko Fujimori took office as president of Peru and swore in Luis Galarreta as President of the Council of Ministers, along with the ministers who would form her first cabinet.
“She announced the first names just one day before she took her oath of office on July 28”
The swearing-in ceremony took place in the Grand Dining Hall of the Government Palace on Tuesday, July 28, and the lineup included Elmer Cuba at the Ministry of Economy and Finance and Carlos Espá at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Fujimori had announced the first names one day before her oath of office on July 28, Peru’s Independence Day, and she named her prime minister—along with the economy and foreign ministers—at a July 27 press conference.
In the same official handover, the government’s team was presented as a full Council of Ministers for the start of the 2026–2031 period, with Galarreta also described as the first vice president of the Republic and secretary-general of Fuerza Popular.
Security, reconciliation, and aid
In her first presidential address, Keiko Fujimori placed citizen security at the center and said the Armed Forces would assume a leading role in the fight against crime.
She pledged that “to restore respect” to the National Police and described an “ambitious process of technological modernization” that would include interconnected video surveillance systems and artificial intelligence tools to anticipate and map crime.
Fujimori also said she would reorganize state aid programs and relaunch the National Food Assistance Program, and she stated that “12% of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition and 35% suffer from anemia.”
The address also included a call for reconciliation, with Fujimori telling Congress, “I call on the opposition's political forces: let us bridge the dialogue; think of the coming generations and not the next elections,” while opposition lawmakers walked out of the Hemicycle shouting “justice.”
Who is in the cabinet
Fujimori’s cabinet included a broad mix of portfolios, with Luis Galarreta as President of the Council of Ministers and César Astudillo Salcedo at the Ministry of the Interior.
“Minister of Defense: Rafael Belaunde Llosa”
The lineup also named Rafael Jorge Belaúnde Llosa as Minister of Defense and Ernesto Julio Álvarez Miranda as Minister of Justice, while José Antonio Chang Escobedo was named Minister of Education and Luis Williams Dyer Fernández was named Minister of Health.
Beyond the core security and social portfolios, the cabinet named Vladimir Huaroc Portocarrero at the Ministry of the Environment and Alberto Ismael Beingolea Delgado at the Ministry of Culture.
Across the full set of ministries, Diario Público described the gender composition as “only two women among nineteen portfolios,” with María Seminario Marón taking the Women and Vulnerable Populations portfolio and Maritza Canales Martínez leading Development and Social Inclusion.
