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| Peru’s president faces fresh scandal before impeachment |
| 2018-03-22 |
| [PRESSTV] Peru’s president faced growing calls to resign on Wednesday after secret video recordings ensnared him in vote-buying allegations on the eve of an impeachment vote, deepening a political crisis in one of Latin America’s most stable economies. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who spent most of the morning in an emergency Cabinet meeting, was due to deliver a message to the nation later on Wednesday. As of Tuesday night he was not planning to resign and still had hopes of surviving a vote in the opposition-ruled Congress on Thursday that would force him immediately from office, according to a government source who asked not to be named. But it was unclear where the center-right president, who has been in office for 20 months, would garner support. Even ruling party politicians, including those who until a day before had been Kuczynski’s staunchest defenders, said they would vote to oust him if he does not step down. Peruvian police put officers across the nation of about 30 million people on maximum alert, according to an Interior Ministry document seen by Rooters. |
| Posted by:Fred |