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Dozens of Peruvians protested on Monday night with marches and spontaneous cacerolazos in the streets of Lima and from their homes against the decision of Congress to remove President Martín Vizcarra.
With posters reading “Coup Congress”, “Merino thief, you will not be president!”, A group of young people marched through the streets near the Congress to repudiate the removal of the popular president.
Outside the Congress, an indignant person punched Congressman Ricardo Burga, from the Popular Action party, in the face while he was declaring to the press. The attack was seen live on television networks.
Police captured several protesters in Plaza San Martín, a few blocks from parliament, who defied public assembly restrictions due to the pandemic.
“There are no congressmen!” Some women shouted in chorus near the Parliament building, surrounded by contingents of riot police.
In some buildings and houses in the Peruvian capital, people came out with pans to protest.
The demonstrations also took place in the cities of Arequipa and Trujillo, according to local media.
Congress removed the president for “moral incapacity,” at the close of the second political trial against Vizcarra in less than two months, following complaints that he had received bribes in 2014 when he was governor of Moquegua, a southern region of the country.
Vizcarra denied any bribery or irregular act in his management. The case is still under investigation by the prosecution.
The motion to remove the Peruvian president was approved by 105 votes, 19 against and four abstentions, far exceeding the 87 necessary votes, at the close of a plenary session lasting almost eight hours.
The head of Congress, Manuel Merino, will be sworn in as Peru’s new president on Tuesday in a plenary session of parliament.
On social networks, a protest march has been called hours before he takes office.
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