Congress is dominated by politicians loyal to Keiko Fujimori, who is the daughter of former strongman Alberto Fujimori and who narrowly lost to Kuczynski in the last presidential election. A third is under investigation and Kuczysnki is likely to face continued scrutiny following revelations his private consulting firm accepted $782,000 in payments from Odebrecht a decade ago, some at a time when he was a government minister.
The Prosecutor's Office of Peru opens a preliminary investigation to determine if there were alleged political benefits – among them the humanitarian pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori – offered by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to avoid being removed from his office during the first impeachment process against him in December 2017. Three months later, in the middle of a similar scenario, Kuczynski resigned, seeing that Congress would no longer favor him.