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...Legislators have used the “moral incapacity” clause to impeach two presidents in the past three years: Martín Vizcarra and Castillo....
...Vizcarra confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday, saying the couple were suffering symptoms and were isolating....
...In 2018 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned the presidency to avoid impeachment and last year Martín Vizcarra was impeached....
...Hours later, Mr Vizcarra quit. Usually, his job would go to the vice-president, but Mr Vizcarra had no deputy, the consequence of previous battles between the executive and congress....
...Why did Mr Vizcarra lose? On the morning of the vote, it seemed Mr Vizcarra would prevail, after easily defeating a similar impeachment attempt two months earlier....
...Vizcarra, meanwhile, was vaccinated in October along with his wife and older brother....
...Peru’s pragmatic centrist president Martín Vizcarra was the first. After congress voted 105-19 to impeach him on Monday over corruption allegations, Mr Vizcarra chose not to fight....
...Twice they have succeeded, bringing down Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018 — he resigned on the eve of an impeachment vote — and his successor Martín Vizcarra in 2020....
...Mr Vizcarra had warned earlier in the day of “unpredictable consequences” if he were ousted....
...Mr Vizcarra imposed one of the world’s longest and strictest lockdowns in mid-March....
...The Purple Party had voted against Mr Vizcarra’s impeachment, allowing it to dodge popular anger....
...Mr Vizcarra imposed a national lockdown early on, which crippled the economy but completely failed to halt soaring infection rates....
...Peru’s former president Martin Vizcarra and other senior politicians were secretly vaccinated against coronavirus weeks before inoculations were made publicly available....
...Kuczynski, now under house arrest in Lima, says Peru’s economic model fell victim to a triple assault of Fujimori’s obstructionism, the Odebrecht scandal and, later, the failed policies of his successor Martín Vizcarra...
...Hana Vizcarra, staff attorney at Harvard University’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, said the court’s opinion gave the Biden administration a clean slate to work on greenhouse gas emissions from existing...
...The country has had three presidents in that time: Martín Vizcarra was forced to quit after being impeached by congress and Manuel Merino, who stepped up from being head of congress, lasted just five days...
...Appointed by congress after legislators impeached his well-liked predecessor Martín Vizcarra, Mr Merino’s chaotic term in office ended in ignominy after a police crackdown on demonstrators that cost two...
...Mr Vizcarra has refused to apologise for his handling of the crisis....
...This is not a clear victory for Vizcarra.”...
...Peru has been rocked by revelations that nearly 500 people, including former president Martín Vizcarra and other senior politicians, were vaccinated against coronavirus on the quiet....
...In Peru, which chooses a new leader in April, President Martín Vizcarra’s ratings have slumped after a Covid-19 lockdown devastated the economy and failed to prevent one of the world’s highest per capita...
...(FT) Populism resurgent in Latin America Peru’s president Martín Vizcarra has become the first pragmatic, market-friendly president in Latin America to be ousted by populists in the wake of the coronavirus...
...Harvard’s Ms Vizcarra estimates that of the environmental rules finalised in 2020, at least four were probably completed early enough to be safe from review under the CRA....
...There was no immediate comment from Mr Vizcarra....
...Mr Vizcarra approved it by executive order in November but once parliament is back, lawmakers will review it, along with other measures put forward by Ms Alva’s ministry....
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