Pedro Castillo, invested president in Peru: "His challenge, to bring together"
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Pedro Castillo, officially invested president of Peru, July 28, 2021 © Guadalupe Pardo / AP
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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Officially proclaimed the winner last week, a month and a half after the second round of June 6, 2021, the candidate of the radical left Pedro Castillo, new to politics, is officially invested, this Wednesday, July 28, 2021, president of Peru, on the day of bicentenary of the country's independence.
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The ceremonies will last three days.
This Wednesday, July 28, it is in Lima, in the hemicycle of the Peruvian Congress that Pedro Castillo will deliver his first speech as Head of State.
He should therefore talk about the fight against the pandemic, his economic policy, as well as the establishment of a Constituent Assembly, but his first challenge
"is to bring together and propose a government of national unity that can meet the important challenges. "
facing Peru, according to our guest Lissell Quiroz, professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cergy Paris.
Elected narrowly against his rival from the populist right Keiko Fujimori who long disputed the vote count, Pedro Castillo will also have to deal with an assembly where he does not have a majority, which will make his debut even more complicated. mandate.
"He must find alliances within the more progressive, more urban, younger and feminine left",
according to Lissell Quiroz, who predicted Pedro
Castillo "a very difficult start to his mandate"
.
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