{"id":1766692,"date":"2022-12-07T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766692"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:03:04","slug":"leftist-peruvian-president-impeached-after-vowing-to-dissolve-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-peruvian-president-impeached-after-vowing-to-dissolve-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Peruvian President Impeached After Vowing To Dissolve Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftist-peruvian-president-impeached-after-vowing-to-dissolve-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766692&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Leftist Peru President Pedro Castillo was impeached on Wednesday after he attempted to dissolve Congress and install an alternative \u201cexceptional emergency government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/peru-caribbean-government-pedro-castillo-62923886f7c53b1dcceb0db84cb09888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused<\/a> to follow Castillo\u2019s announcement of dissolution and instead held a vote to impeach him. Legislators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/12\/07\/castillo-dissolves-congress-peru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> 101 to 6, with 10 abstaining, to kick Castillo out of office <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/peru-caribbean-government-pedro-castillo-62923886f7c53b1dcceb0db84cb09888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">due<\/a> to \u201cpermanent moral incapacity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/07\/americas\/peru-president-castillo-congress-dissolves-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Vice President Dina Boluarte would be put in power. She had previously criticized Castillo\u2019s moves on Twitter, stating, \u201cI reject Pedro Castillo\u2019s decision to break the constitutional order by closing the congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is a coup d\u2019etat that deepens the political and institutional crisis, and Peruvian society will have to overcome the crisis with a strict attachment to the law,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-35350\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Castillo, who used to be a farmer, teacher, and union head, spoke publicly hours before an impeachment vote was set to happen.\u00a0He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/peru-president-plans-to-dissolve-congress-before-impeachment-vote-11670434030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he would rule the country by decree as new legislative elections are set up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe have taken the decision to establish a government of exception, to reestablish the rule of law and democracy to which effect the following measures are dictated: to dissolve Congress temporarily, to install a government of exceptional emergency, to call to the shortest term possible to elections for a new Congress with the ability to draft a new Constitution,\u201d Castillo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/world\/americas\/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also established an immediate nationwide curfew and said all Peruvian citizens should hand over their illegal guns. The curfew was set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/07\/americas\/peru-president-castillo-congress-dissolves-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last<\/a> from 10 p.m. on Wednesday to 4 a.m. the Thursday. Castillo also said a new constitution should be written.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last year, Castillo barely won the election during a runoff, and many of his rivals have never acknowledged his election. He is under investigation in six separate probes still being carried out by the National Prosecutor\u2019s office. Five of the investigations are due to alleged corruption actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Many officials in his government resigned after his announcement on Wednesday.\u00a0 Ministers have been put in place, fired, replaced, or have stepped down since he took office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The National Police and Joint Chiefs in the country had also denied that his move to dissolve Congress was constitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cAny act contrary to the established constitutional order represents an infraction to the Constitution and will lead to the non-acceptance by the Armed Forces and the Police,\u201d the Joint Command of the Armed Forces reportedly said in a statement. \u201cThe citizenship is called to remain calm and trust in the state institutions legally established.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement before the vote, the Ombudsman\u2019s Office, an independent governmental group, said that Peru was in the middle of something \u201cthat can\u2019t be called anything but a coup.\u201d It said Castillo should step down and hand himself over to judicial personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMr. Castillo must remember that he was not only elected president of the republic, but also that the people elected representatives for public service,\u201d the statement <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/peru-caribbean-government-pedro-castillo-62923886f7c53b1dcceb0db84cb09888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cCastillo\u2019s actions ignore the will of the people and are invalid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist Peru President Pedro Castillo was impeached on Wednesday after he attempted to dissolve Congress and install an alternative \u201cexceptional emergency government.\u201d The Congress refused to follow Castillo\u2019s announcement of dissolution and instead held a vote to impeach him. Legislators voted 101 to 6, with 10 abstaining, to kick Castillo out of office due to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1766695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}