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The deputies of the Congress of Peru vote this Friday the removal of the president Martin Vizcarra, adding 78 votes against the vacancy.
In this way, El Comercio highlights, the 87 required to dismiss him were not achieved. Only 32 legislators voted in favor, while 15 abstained.
Vizcarra is accused of urging two advisers to lie in an investigation into the contracts of a singer, according to leaked audios eight days ago. This led Congress to open an impeachment trial for “moral incapacity.”
The debate was heated and lasted over 10 hours, with a lunch break.
“The vacancy request has not been approved, consequently it goes to the archive,” declared after the vote the head of Congress, the opposition Manuel Merino, who would have assumed power if the trial against Vizcarra, which he promoted, had been successful.
Debate and voting
The plenary session began on Friday morning, a week after Parliament approved to seat him on the bench by 65 votes in favor, 36 against and 24 abstentions.
At the end of the debate, the congressmen voted the motion to remove the 57-year-old provincial engineer from office, without ties to the Lima political and economic elite.
The Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday to stop the trial, but agreed to clarify – in about ten weeks – the requirements for Congress to declare the “moral incapacity” of a president, since the Magna Carta does not specify it.
The center-right president must govern until July 28, 2021. Presidential and legislative elections are called for April 2021.
More than 70 parliamentarians spoke during the pre-vote debate.
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