Francisco Sagasti

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Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler ([fɾanˈsisko rafaˈel saˈɣasti xoˈxawsleɾ] ; born 10 October 1944) is a Peruvian engineer, academic, politician, and author who served as the president of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021. Sagasti has worked as an advisor for economic development at the International Development Research Centre, World Bank, UNCSTD and the World Economic Forum. After the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis, Sagasti left his position at the World Bank to return to Peru. In 2016, he helped found the centrist Purple Party with Julio Guzmán. Following the dissolution of congress in 2019, he was elected into congress in January 2020, serving from March to November 2020 as a Member of Congress, representing the Lima constituency. On 10 November 2020, following a controversial express impeachment and removal of President Martín Vizcarra by Congress due to allegations of "moral incapacity" (a 19th-century concept for mental incapacity), the President of Congress Manuel Merino...

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