• Peru The Peruvian Congress dismisses President Martín Vizcarra

  • September: First attempt to remove Martín Vizcarra

"It was not a vacancy, it was a coup!"

The protests took place in Lima, where

Manuel Merino

made an acrobatic leap from the presidency of Congress to the presidency of the Republic.

The sudden dismissal of Martín Vizcarra thanks to the pact of a Congress reviled by corruption caused

a political earthquake only mitigated because the presidential elections are already called

for April.

"Our first commitment is to respect the electoral process underway," Merino said in his inauguration, which bore certain similarities with that of Alberto Fujimori in 2000, surrounded by

controversy and citizen outrage and with little popular legitimacy

.

Despite being a quasi-unknown congressman, in a few weeks Merino has dug into the grave of his popularity to reach

70% national rejection

, in contrast to the more than 50% approval of Vizcarra.

Despite not having been in charge of Parliament for a year, Merino's political closet already contains

very controversial conversations with the military to support him

in the first attempt to remove Vizcarra, two months ago.

"This is a coup in disguise. We need calm, but also a lot of citizen vigilance. The indignation of millions of Peruvians should serve to retire criminal politicians and make a generational change in the next elections that have to be given yes or yes" , claimed the former mayor and former goalkeeper of the Lima Alliance,

George Forsyth

, who leads all the polls for the April elections.

The dismissal of Vizcarra has confirmed that

the office of president is very high risk in Peru

, as if it were a bench in the Spanish First Division.

Of the eight presidents of the country so far this century, one remains imprisoned (Alberto Fujimori), three have passed through Peruvian prisons (Ollanta Humala, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and the Popular Force leader himself), another waits in a US prison his extradition (Alejandro Toledo), three were removed (Fujimori, Vizcarra and Kuczynski) and one committed suicide before being imprisoned (Alan García).

The bets on the future of Manuel Merino mark good dividends that augur a path full of obstacles, despite the fact that his term ends in June.

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