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The Peruvian opposition Keiko Fujimori, who has been the president’s greatest adversary Martin Vizcarra, said this Sunday that “there are not enough elements” for the president to be removed by Congress.
“Until today there are not enough elements or procedures necessary to vacate (remove) the president,” Fujimori said in a video posted on social networks.
Congress started on Friday an impeachment process Vizcarra, who will be voted on September 18, for having allegedly urged two advisers investigated to lie in a case of alleged irregularities in the contract of a singer.
The daughter of the former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and head of the opposition Popular Force party (populist right) pointed out that dismissing a president is an extreme measure adopted after having exhausted all other avenues.
“If other additional elements appear along the way that show us that this media is essential, we will not hesitate to support it. Until that happens, we must exhaust other possibilities, ”Keiko stressed.
The opposition leader said that Peru faces difficult times with the health crisis due to the coronavirus and the economic recession derived from a prolonged national quarantine, so that Congress must act with “prudence.”
He also expressed that his party “will not back down in its decision to act responsibly” in this political crisis.
The broadcast of some audios on Thursday led six of the nine parties represented in Congress to demand the removal of Vizcarra, who assumed power in March 2018 after the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, of whom he was vice president.
Vizcarra, who lacks party and bench, will appear before the plenary on Friday to offer his discharges, after which the 130 legislators will debate and proceed to vote whether or not to dismiss him for “moral incapacity.”
87 votes are required to declare the presidential vacancy.
With 15 legislators, Fuerza Popular is the fourth bench in the fragmented Peruvian Congress, after having lost the hegemony won in 2016 a year ago, when Vizcarra constitutionally dissolved parliament amid clashes with Fujimori.
Keiko’s party promoted two impeachment motions against Kuczynski, which led to his resignation from the presidency in March 2018.
Keiko, a two-time presidential candidate, spent more than a year in preventive detention in the framework of the investigation into alleged illegal campaign contributions by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which also hit four former Peruvian presidents.
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