Not one, not two, not three, four. In the last few hours, the Peruvian parliamentary groups have initiated a cascade of processes, up to four, to force the vacancy (impeachment) of Dina Boluarte, the most unpopular president in the history of the Andean country, for “permanent moral incapacity.”
The attack against the renowned cumbia band Agua Marina in the military circle of Chorrillos has triggered a torrent of censures and interpellations that have finally forced the parties that barely supported her, especially the Fujimori Popular Force, to join the different initiatives to remove her.
“The entire bench comes to inform that we are going to support any vacancy motion that is presented against Boluarte,” acknowledged the Fujimori deputy. César Revilla, a political sentence without turning back a president involved in scandals and without partisan support. Boluarte became president in December 2022 after the failed self-coup of Pedro Castillo, with whom he formed a tandem to win the 2021 presidential elections as standard bearers of the Marxist-Leninist Peru Libre party. In this way, the then vice president became the first woman to lead the country.
In the decision that the deputies will make in the next few hours (the vacancy needs 52 deputies to be admitted for processing and 87 out of 125 for it to be approved in plenary session) not only the inability of the government to fight against the wave of violence that is shaking the country or the overwhelming unpopularity (95%) of Boluarte weighs. General elections are scheduled for April 12 next year. including the first presidential round.
“We will continue working until the last minute of July 28, 2026 to continue giving our Peruvian family a little quality of life,” the president defended herself.
Legislators were negotiating in the last hours to accelerate the fall of Boluarte, which no one is betting on today in Peru. If the vacancy finally occurs and the favorable vote, which will be overwhelming, the change in the House of Pizarro would take place in a few days.
The first call to succeed her is the current president of Congress, José Jerí Oré, a young politician of 38 years old, a member of Somos Perú, a center-right party. The alternative is a prior consensus of the parties to appoint another legislative president, who would lead the transitional government during the elections.