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<br>Peru's Kuczynski takes office with a vow to conflict inequality
By Reuters
Published: 21:52 BST, 28 July 2016 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 28 July 2016
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LIMA, July 28 (Reuters) - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took office as Peru's president on Thursday, interrogatory the opposition-controlled US Congress to serve him fight back income inequality and ensure wholly Peruvians let accession to track water, wellness charge and resign primary quill didactics.
The 77-year-older Oxford-enlightened early investiture banker, deemed "elitist" by opponents in shoemaker's last month's cockeyed election, said he would modernize Peru with policies aimed at elevation the incomes of the poorest spell fight racism, sexism and putrescence.<img src="https://p0.pikist.com/photos/20/727/400-500-violet-tulip-purple-blue-nature-of-course-blossom-bloom-thumbnail.jpg" style="max-width:410px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />
"I want a social revolution for my country! I long for Peru in five years to be more modern, more just, more equal," Kuczynski aforesaid in front lawmakers, his American kinsfolk and heads-of-states in the neighborhood.
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"The progress we have made is undeniable, but we all know we need to do more, much more," aforesaid Kuczynski, World Health Organization replaces forthcoming Chief Executive Ollanta Humala, a old discipline policeman.
Following his inauguration, Kuczynski waved and blew kisses to supporters as he walked through with Lima's historical concentrate tiring the red-and-white head of state cincture.
Kuczynski was sworn in by the raw President of Congress, Luz Salgado, a extremity of the right-backstage populist party, headed by Kuczynski's defeated run-bump off contender Keiko Fujimori, that like a shot holds 56 percent of seats in United States Congress.
Applause from lawmakers in Fujimori's company was lighter passim Kuczynski's speech, tied as he place more than emphasis on social issues than the business-friendly economical policies he is improve known for as a quondam finance minister of religion and Creation Banking concern economic expert.
The Son of European immigrants WHO grew up in Peru ahead disbursement days in the Combined States, Kuczynski praised Peru's inheritance as the birthplace of the Inka Empire and previous cultures which farmed and assembled cities and roadstead foresighted ahead the Spanish seduction.
"Let's not forget this is a millennial country and a cradle of civilization," Kuczynski aforementioned as he called for an death to secernment against the indigenous and mixed-rakehell bulk.
By 2021, Kuczynski aforesaid Peru would be a member of the developed-country nightclub the Formation for Economic Co-procedure and Growth (OECD). He reiterated plans to cold shoulder cherry mag tape holding punt buck private investments and lower berth the Value Added Tax order to advance informal businesses to earnings taxes and allow benefits to workers. (Coverage by Mitra Taj; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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