Peru president Pablo Kuczynski survives bid to impeach him

in peru •  7 years ago 

Vote comes after it emerged Kuczynski hid ties with Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction firm facing corruption allegations in 12 countries.

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Peru’s president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has escaped being pushed out of office by the narrowest of margins after legislators failed to reach the two-thirds of the vote needed to oust him on the grounds of “moral unfitness”.

The vote followed the revelation that a company Kuczynski owned had business ties with the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, which has been at the centre of Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal.

By The Guardian

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