Peru installs Jose Balcazar as interim president
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Feb 20 (Reuters) - Peru’s revolving-door presidency turned again this week, ushering out the country's seventh leader in less than a decade, but the political churn has produced little market turbulence as investors seem unfazed by the spin.
Just four months into his term, Peru’s President Jose Jeri has been impeached and removed from office. The decision was the result of a Tuesday vote from Peru’s Congress, which debated multiple corruption allegations against Jeri’s government.
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Peru’s leader José Jerí ousted over ‘Chifa-gate’ scandal, as presidential ‘curse’ strikes again
Peru’s president has been ousted after being censured by Congress, marking the country’s eighth change of leader in nearly a decade of political instability.
Peru's Congress has voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he faces corruption allegations
Peru’s Congress has ousted interim President José Jerí, deepening the country’s political churn just before the April election.
The ramifications run beyond domestic politics. Chifagate, as the scandal became known—after chifa, the local term for a Chinese restaurant, in one of which the meetings took place—was drawing new levels of scrutiny to Chinese influence in Peru at a time when Donald Trump is eager to assert the dominance of the United States over the region.
Peru’s Congress voted to impeach interim President José Jerí just four months after he took office.
Rights groups expressed concern Thursday at the choice of 83-year-old Jose Maria Balcazar as Peru's stand-in president given past utterances on girls and under-aged sex.The CNDDHH rights coalition