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The Constitutional Court of Peru on Thursday rejected a precautionary measure requested by the president Martin Vizcarra that would have paralyzed the impeachment trial to which it will be submitted on Friday by Congress, announced a magistrate.
The Court, by five votes to two, “has decided to reject the precautionary measure proposed by the Executive,” which paves the way for impeachment that will decide whether or not he is dismissed, said the president of the high court, Marianella Ledesma.
Ledesma pointed out that the seven magistrates of the court, whose rulings are unappealable, did not grant the precautionary measure because “in light of the statements of political leaders, the risk of the vacancy happening [del mandatario] it has weakened and there is no obvious urgency ”.
He also added that the court has decided to admit to processing the lawsuit filed on Monday by the government to detail the requirements for Congress to declare the “Moral incapacity” of a president. He clarified that deciding this point will take “weeks.”
Vizcarra must sit on the bench before an opposition-controlled Congress that passed a motion to bring him to impeachment for instigating two advisers to lie in an investigation into a disputed contract with a singer, according to some audios released a week ago.
In an accelerated process that began immediately after those audios were made public, Vizcarra runs the risk of being fired 10 months before the end of his term, marked by recurring clashes with parliament.
The president, who lacks party and bench, had asked the court on Monday to define the causes of the “moral incapacity” and to suspend the political trial in case he needed more time to pronounce on the merits of his query.
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