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Weekly Report - 26 November 2020 (WR-20-47)

PERU: Sagasti succeeds where judges fail

Peru’s President Francisco Sagasti wasted little time in taking decisive action. Precisely one week after being sworn-in as interim president to oversee the transition to a new government in July 2021, Sagasti took steps to reform the national police, whose repressive response to protests that followed the impeachment of President Martín Vizcarra on 9 November resulted in two fatalities, bringing down the unpopular government led by the president of congress, Manuel Merino, that replaced him within days. Sagasti’s decisiveness was in stark contrast to a non-ruling by the constitutional tribunal (TC), which abnegated its responsibility by refusing to define the instances in which congress is able to invoke Article 113 of the constitution to impeach a president for moral incapacity.

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