The president of the Constitutional Court of Peru said, after the Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, partially closed Congress and called elections for the Constituent Assembly, that Congress should call the vice president, Dina Boluarte, to assume power.
Castillo announced, this Wednesday (7), the partial closure of Congress, in a message broadcast on national television.
The hearing of the motion of censure in the Peruvian Congress was scheduled for this Wednesday. Castillo should respond to the accusation made by the Legislature of having “permanent moral inability” to govern, for the third time since he took office in July 2021.
It was the third attempted vacancy motion (the equivalent of impeachment proceedings) against President Pedro Castillo and the fifth against an incumbent president in the past 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.
Article 113 of the Peruvian Constitution provides that the Presidency of the Republic may be removed for various reasons, including “permanent moral incapacity” declared by Congress.
*With information from Reuters
Source: CNN Brasil
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