US EditionPeru's Congress Weighs Removal of Interim President Jose Jeri
Seven censure motions target Jeri over alleged unregistered meetings with Chinese businessmen and influence peddling amid a probe and waning public support, opposition lawmakers said.
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Peru suffered this Tuesday the same déjà vu that has marked its last decade: another president who falls before completing his term and a Congress that again pushes politics to the edge of the abyss. José Jerí was removed from the Presidency, just four months after having succeeded Dina Boluarte, also dismissed by Congress for his inability to tackle the country’s security crisis. One of the seven censorship motions prospered against the lawyer,…
Although there are differences on whether to apply censorship or leave, Congress decided that the session will deal only with censorship, without opening the discussion to another constitutional mechanism to remove the president.
With 75 in favor, 24 against and 3 abstentions, Parliament approved the president’s censorship a few weeks after the elections. The meeting was held in the José Faustino Sánchez Carrión auditorium
Congress decides today the future of José Jerí: Plenary session will debate seven motions of censure
The extraordinary plenary of the Congress of the Republic approved the admission of the second motion of censure against the president in charge José Jerí, in the framework of a key day that could define his stay in the Palace of Government.With 87 congressmen present in the room, out of a total of 115 able legislators, the vote on the second motion cast the following result:69 votes in favour26 votes against0 abstentionsWith this result, the se…
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