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Weekly Report - 17 November 2022 (WR-22-46)

PERU: Castillo’s survival hanging in the balance

The pressure on Peru’s embattled president, Pedro Castillo, is ramping up. The congressional subcommittee on constitutional accusations approved two separate constitutional complaints against Castillo this week. They will now both be passed up to the permanent committee of congress, which, if it concurs, will submit the complaints to the full congress. Approval of these accusations would require only a simple majority rather than the two-thirds majority which remained out of reach in congress when Castillo faced impeachment votes on two previous occasions. 

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