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Vizcarra has held the position since 2018 and was dismissed five months before the general elections in the country.
The Peruvian Congress dismissed President Martín Vizcarra on Monday, in office since 2018.
The so-called “vacancy motion”, which determines the departure of the president, had 105 votes in favor, 19 against and 4 abstentions. According to the country’s Constitution, it took 87 votes out of a total of 130 for the motion to advance.
The legislator declared the president of “permanent moral incapacity”, whose impeachment was motivated by allegations of corruption during his tenure in the province of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. Vizcarra’s departure occurs just five months before the country’s general elections .
The president of Parliament, Manuel Merino, is expected to assume the presidency.
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The ‘vacancy motion’ passed 105 votes, more than 87 required
Before the vote, Vizcarra defended his innocence and strongly denied the charges.
He had already faced a vacancy application in September, but at that time Congress rejected it.
The political crisis comes amid the economic and social instability of the country, which is also severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, Peru had more than 922,000 records of the disease and 34,800 deaths.
Eliminations
The corruption allegations that led to Vizcarra’s impeachment in the Legislature intensified in September, when the content of the award-winning negotiations was leaked.
In the end, such complaints were neither corroborated nor supported by the Public Ministry.
The three informants, whose names have not been disclosed, accused Vizcarra of having received up to 2.3 million soles (about R $ 3.4 million) in bribes to facilitate concessions for two public works, the Moquegua hospital and a project irrigation. The case became known as the “construction club.”
In his speech on Monday, the president argued that the vacancy motion should not be used as a “political weapon” and that the government “cannot be under permanent threat” with every complaint. Vizcarra said the legislative decision was based solely on two reports citing a preliminary investigation, without respecting “due process.”
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