Leftwing rural teacher Pedro Castillo sworn in as president of Peru

Castillo will face deeply divided Congress who will make it challenging for him to fulfil campaign promise to aid poor

Pedro Castillo, a leftwing political novice who has promised to be a champion of his country’s poor, has been sworn in as Peru’s president.

The rural teacher, who has never held political office before, was sworn in less than two weeks after he was declared the winner of the 6 June runoff election. He is Peru’s first president of peasant origin.

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