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Weekly Report - 18 August 2022 (WR-22-33)
PERU: Castillo clashes with congress
Spiralling recriminations between President Pedro Castillo and congress are compounding Peru’s protracted political crisis. Castillo and his prime minister, Aníbal Torres, branded the police raid on the presidential palace on 9 August, to arrest the president’s sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes in relation to involvement in the granting of corrupt contracts, as part of an attempt to overthrow the established democratic order. Torres appealed to supporters to march on Lima to defend the government. The president of congress, Lady Camones, in turn accused Castillo and Torres of seeking to rupture the democratic order by advocating an insurrection. Castillo has since called for cooler heads to prevail, but fresh verbal volleys are likely to be exchanged sooner rather than later.
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