They could remove President Martín Vizcarra in Peru 1:54
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The Congress of Peru presented this Thursday night a vacancy motion for moral incapacity against President Martín Vizcarra.
The document accuses the president of lying and obstructing a legislative investigation.
If the motion is approved this Friday, the vacancy debate must take place no earlier than the third day and no later than the tenth day after admission.
However, this last vote, to vacate the president, could be brought forward to this Friday, if 104 congressmen voted in favor.
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This comes hours after Vizcarra gave a message to the nation on Thursday in which he said: “If you want to vacate me, here I am, with my head held high and my conscience clear.
Nothing presented today illegally is a cause of vacancy.
I will not resign".
Vizcarra's audios
The president's message followed the broadcast, on Thursday morning, of three audios in the plenary session of Congress, presented by the president of the Audit Commission, Edgar Alarcón.
In them, President Vizcarra is heard speaking with officials of the Government Palace about various visits by singer Richard Cisneros to the government house.
According to Alarcón, the audios would prove that the president told these officials to lie about these visits.
In his speech on Thursday, Vizcarra referred to the audios broadcast in the plenary session of Congress and although he accepted that it was his voice that was heard, he said that the recordings were "maliciously edited and manipulated" and that they try to take his "words out of context "And accuse him of nonexistent situations:" I am not going to deny the conversation, but they were internal coordination that takes place in any institution, a way of clarifying what was happening in the framework of the investigations. "
Vizcarra added that there are interests in taking over the government: "All this is a hoax that seeks to destabilize democracy in order to take control of the government, to allow the re-election of congressmen, postpone the elections and guarantee their electoral victory."
The Congressional Oversight Commission investigates the contracts signed by the Ministry of Culture with Richard Cisneros to carry out the production of events and motivational talks.
This working group investigates, among other aspects, if the hiring of Cisneros was due to his closeness to President Martín Vizcarra.
Cisneros agreed before the commission to meet the president but has denied having any kind of relationship with him.
For his part, the president has also publicly agreed to meet Richard Cisneros, who participated as an artist in the 2016 presidential campaign but who has denied that he has recommended him to do any work in the State.
Sonia Gillén, former Minister of Culture, told this working group that she resigned after the hiring of Cisneros was made public, although, she clarified, she did not participate in the hiring of the artist.
Singer Richard Cisneros told the press on Friday that this is a conspiracy.
“They are using me with a single objective;
to get political power through a coup disguised as a vacancy ”.
Martín Vizcarra assumed the government after the departure of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who in March 2018 resigned after the previous Congress presented a vacancy motion for moral incapacity against him.
Kuczynski denied that he had lied to the country and said the accusations that he tried to buy votes to avoid his vacancy were false.
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