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Weekly Report - 13 September 2018 (WR-18-36)
PERU: Chávarry ensnared in spreading scandal
Pressure is mounting on Peru’s attorney general Pedro Chávarry to resign. President Martín Vizcarra was joined by the vast majority of Peru’s senior public prosecutors in calling for Chávarry to go this week after damning evidence emerged of his links to the corruption and influence-trafficking scandal rocking the top echelons of the national judiciary. To top it off, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Lima on 12 September to demand his resignation. Chávarry insists he is the victim of a defamation campaign and remains determined to stay on, but his position is starting to look untenable as congress finally begins to debate the Vizcarra administration’s judicial reform proposal.
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