Peru’s President faces impeachment over corruption scandal

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski may just yet be facing his toughest test as a leader after Peru’s Congress passed a motion to start impeachment proceedings against him.

Reports say the Congress triggered the motion for his impeachment over a region-wide corruption scandal with legislators also voting 93 to 17 to back a proposal to debate Kuczynski’s dismissal on December 21.

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The President is accused of covering up decades-old illegal payments from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht which he has denied saying he only provided advisory services to the company at the time.

“I’m not running and I’m not hiding because I have no reason to,” Kuczynski said in a televised speech on Thursday.

The company became embroiled in a political scandal after admitting to paying more than $788m in bribes to win construction contracts across 12 countries, including Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela.

 

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