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<br>By Marco Aquino<br> <br>LIMA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmaker Francisco Sagasti is set to be sworn in as [http://thesaurus.com/browse/interim%20President interim President] on Tuesday after being voted for by Congress in a bid to help calm anger on the streets amid deadly protests and the departure of two presidents over the last week.<br> <br>Sagasti, a legislator from the centrist Purple Party,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html kynghidongduong.vn] will be sworn in at 4 p.m.<br>(2100 GMT) to fulfill a government mandate until July next year, which would include holding a new presidential election scheduled for April 11.<br> <br>The Andean nation has been shaken since the abrupt ouster in an impeachment trial of popular leader Martin Vizcarra last Monday.<br><br>His successor, Manuel Merino, resigned on Sunday after two young people died in protests against his government.<br> <br>Sagasti's appointment appeared to calm tensions, though a deep mistrust of the country's politicians still remains and on Monday night hundreds of people marched in the capital Lima, with calls for a new constitution and "justice for the fallen".<br> <br>"I think that Sagasti is someone that gives democratic guarantees, that can get a transition towards a new government that will be adequate," said one protester, Paloma Carpio.<br> <br>Jose Murguia, also protesting, was less convinced.<br><br>"Quite frankly, it's the same rubbish. The mask has changed but everything is all the same," he said.<br> <br>Sagasti, 76, an engineer and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html tour cửu trại câu giá rẻ] former World Bank official, said on Monday night that he was considering names for ministers in his government and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html tour cửu trại câu] did not rule out including members of the cabinets of centrist predecessors Vizcarra and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.<br> <br>"If they are people with experience, integrity and the desire to work, I think we would do wrong to leave them aside," Sagasti told local television station Canal N.<br> <br>Sagasti will be Peru's fourth president in less than three years, after the departures of Vizcarra and Merino, and the resignation of Kuczynski in 2018 on allegations of corruption.<br> <br>The recent turmoil has weighed on Peru's markets, pushing the sol currency to record low and hitting bonds.<br><br>(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Writing by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Alex Richardson)<br>