Peru’s Congress impeached President Boluarte

PERU - In Brief 10 Oct 2025 by Alfredo Thorne

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Last night with 121 votes of the 130 legislators (8 did not attended), Peru’s Congress impeached President Boluarte. This followed the sharp increase in insecurity and the feeling that her government had not been attending the population demands for greater internal security. Official extortions complaints have increased to a daily average of 76 in June 2025 from 3 in June 2028. Two events had triggered the impeachment, an urban transport strike on Tuesday that paralyzed the wholes city ofLima; and the shooting by extortionists of a highly popular band, Agua Marina, in an Army headquarters in Lima on Wednesday. While these events had triggered the impeachment, the political crisis had been brewing for a long time, since she took over as president on December 7th, 2022. Her term started with the protests in the south of Peru where about 50 protesters died in clashes with the police and the army. But then-after she became a frivolous president delinked from the population at large. She has been investigated for acquiring expensive Rolex’ watches and other jewelry and secretly performing plastic surgery, among others. Having she born and raised in Chalhuanca, Apurímac, a poor city in the south of Peru, one would have expected a greater contact with the low-income population. She may have been the most unpopular president and in the last poll she got only 2% of positive popular support Although the Constitution mandates that in the impeachment Congress’ session the president has the right to defend herself, former president Boluarte decided not to attend and Congress elected Speaker José Jerí, as the text president. Jerí had become the 7th president in the last 10 years an...