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Peru's president races home by car to avoid impeachment motion
By AFP Published April 30, 2022
President Pedro Castillo rushed back to Peru by car from a visit to Ecuador to avoid being impeached, after bad weather grounded his plane. Peru is politically unstable and removes its presidents frequently.
Castillo risked violating the constitution — and giving the opposition an excuse to go after him — if he failed to arrive back in Peru by midnight Friday leading into Saturday.
That was the deadline set by Congress as it approved his visit to neighboring Ecuador, where Castillo met with President Guillermo Lasso in the city of Loja, which is 264 kilometers (160 miles) from the Peruvian border.
Castillo leads a minority government, and the legislature is actually controlled by opposition parties.
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