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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceo

Peru's accidental president fails to quell protests

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It might be the world's shortest political honeymoon.

Almost since the moment last week when Dina Boluarte took over from the ousted leader Pedro Castillo to become Peru's first female president, she has appealed for calm and a chance to govern, insisting that the caretaker job came to her out of circumstance, not personal ambition.

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