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Peru's president dissolves Congress, calls for early elections
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra announced Monday the dissolution of the opposition-led Congress and called for early general elections amid an institutional crisis.
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"I have decided to dissolve Congress and call legislative elections. This is a constitutional act," said Martin Vizcarra, in power since 2018, in a speech broadcast on television.
The announcement comes after Congress challenged the Executive and appointed a new member of the Constitutional Court, without discussing the motion of confidence presented by the Government, which tried to stop the process to prevent the opposition from controlling the Judiciary.
The Peruvian parliament is controlled by the Popular Force party, whose president and daughter of the former head of state Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, has been in prison since October 2018, for alleged illegal contributions from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
In his speech, Vizcarra stressed that the dissolution of Congress "is constitutional" and "seeks to end a phase of political entrapment that has prevented Peru from growing at the pace of its possibilities".
"I hope you remember the magnitude of this struggle, which is against one of the endemic evils that has caused so much damage to Peru and that has not allowed the country to grow as it deserves and as all Peruvians deserve," added the president, in a reference to his anti-corruption policy.
The last President to dissolve the Peruvian Congress, composed of a single chamber and with 120 members elected for a five-year term, was Alberto Fujimori, in 1992.
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