The Peruvian Congress approved this Wednesday (7) the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo. Earlier, the head of state had announced a state of exception and that he would partially dissolve Congress.
The voting score was 101 votes in favor, 6 against and 10 abstentions.
This Wednesday (7), the hearing of the motion of censure in the Peruvian Congress was scheduled. Castillo should respond to the accusation made by the Legislature of having “permanent moral incapacity” to govern.
This was the third attempted vacancy motion (the equivalent of an impeachment process) against Pedro Castillo and the fifth against an incumbent president in the Latin country in the last five years.
Since 2016, Peru has had five presidents, including Pedro Castillo, elected for the presidential term from 2021 to 2026. Before him, in 2018, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski faced a vacancy motion, but resigned before the impeachment vote, which is estimated to have he would have lost.
Defending our democracy and the Constitution, he #PlenoDelCongreso approved, with 101 votes in favour, the vacancy against President Pedro Castillo. pic.twitter.com/2CVLkmMwVw
— Congress of Peru 🇵🇪 (@congresoperu) December 7, 2022
Who is Pedro Castillo?
Pedro Castillo Terrones was born in the region of Cajamarca. He has a master’s degree in educational psychology and started teaching in the province of Chota, in Cajamarca, in 1995.
Until 2017, he was part of the Peru Possível party, founded by former president Alejandro Toledo, who is imprisoned in the United States, after the Peruvian judiciary ordered, in 2017, preventive detention for alleged involvement in bribery with Odebrecht. The accusations were denied by Toledo.
Currently, Castillo is a member of Peru Livre and, as a trade unionist, he was one of the leaders in a teachers’ strike during the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
The president was accused of being allied with members of the controversial organization Movadef, indicated by the police as the political arm of the Peruvian guerrilla group, something they deny.
In July 2021, Castillo was declared president after a lengthy investigation. Even though he was an unknown candidate, he gained visibility in the debates. At the end of the race, he beat former Peruvian president Keiko Fujimori.
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*published by Tiago Tortella, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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