Precisely one week after suffering the setback of becoming the first Peruvian head of state to see a cabinet rejected by congress in its debut vote of confidence [WR-20-31], President Martín Vizcarra was able to celebrate the overwhelming support extended by the country’s legislators to his new choice for prime minister, Walter Martos, a retired army general, and his cabinet. If Martos had suffered the same fate as Vizcarra’s previous choice of prime minister, Pedro Cateriano, it would have plunged Peru into a profound political crisis at the same time as it is reeling from a health and economic crisis, especially as the constitution bars the dissolution of congress in the final year of a presidential term.End of preview - This article contains approximately 730 words.
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