LIMA (Reuters) - Peru’s new Cabinet took shape on Wednesday as lawyer and long-time politician Ántero Flores-Aráoz agreed to be the Andean country’s new prime minister and pledged to hold a steady course amid the recent political upheaval.Flores-Aráoz, a lawyer, longtime legislator and former defense minister, said in a radio interview he had accepted the role after the removal of centrist President Martín Vizcarra on Monday plunged the country into turmoil. Peru is the world’s No. 2 copper producer and was a regional economic outperformer before the pandemic. Congress head Manuel Merino, who led the charge to impeach Vizcarra twice in recent months, took office on Tuesday, with question marks about how an interim government would steer the country ahead of planned elections in April. “We have a very strong economic crisis, galloping unemployment, plus the health crisis, it is not the best time to do experiments,” Flores-Aráoz told RPP radio. Some analysts fear Merino could allow Congress to make a populist swerve as the devastating coronavirus pandemic has the economy headed for its worst contraction in a century.