RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peru's Congress, controlled by the right-wing opposition, rejected on Tuesday (7) to carry forward the impeachment of leftist president Pedro Castillo.
"The motion was not admitted," declared Congress President María del Carmen Alva, after the request to take Castillo to a political trial obtained only 46 votes in favor in the plenary session, when 52 were needed to approve it, 76 against and four abstentions.
This was the fifth political trial motion against a Peruvian president in the past four years and recalled similar motions that led to the downfall of presidents Pedro . . .
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