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Weekly Report - 29 January 2026 (WR-26-04)
PERU: Jerí clinging on
Peru’s President José Jerí is battling to remain in his post just a few months after he replaced the impeached Dina Boluarte (2002-2025) amid a scandal surrounding leaked videos of ‘off agenda’ meetings he held with a Chinese businessman Zhihua Yang on 26 December and 6 January. Jerí could be saved by a quirk of timing. Several motions of censure have been presented against him by legislators, which would require a simple majority to prosper, but in order for the issue to be debated congress would need to be recalled from recess, requiring a higher three-fifths threshold which, for now, remains out of reach. In the meantime, presidential and congressional elections are drawing ever closer on 12 April.
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