Peru’s Congress selects new leader amid political crisis

Peru is in the midst of a political crisis (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Peru’s Congress has chosen a new leader who is expected to become the nation’s third president in the span of a week.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Francisco Sagasti, an engineer from the centrist Purple Party, as the legislature’s new president. By law, the head of Congress should become the country’s new interim president.