The Peruvian Congress voted on Friday morning to remove President Dina Boluarte from office, on the grounds that she was not dealing effectively with a crime wave sweeping the country.
The Congress immediately installed its own leader, Jose Jeri, in Boluarte’s place as president, as she did not have a vice president in place.
Boluarte’s unpopularity had been building and there were no less than eight previous efforts to remove her from office, but the sudden end of her presidency still came as a surprise. Boluarte was deposed at just past midnight after refusing to appear before Congress and testify in her own defense. The specific charge leading to her ouster was “permanent moral incapacity.”
The Peruvian Congress has 130 seats and 122 of the lawmakers voted to remove her.
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