BUENOS AIRES, October 10. /TASS/. Peru’s Congress has voted to impeach the country’s President Dina Boluarte citing national security concerns.

The session was broadcast on the parliament’s YouTube channel. Later, Congress President Jose Jeri was sworn in as the country’s new president.

TASS has compiled key facts about the situation in Peru.

Impeachment causes

- On October 9, Peru’s Congress considered four proposals to impeach Boluarte due to her "moral incapacity" to serve as president.

- The initiatives’ authors accused the head of state of failing to quell the country’s crime problem.

- Boluarte did not show up for the Congress’ session.

- Peru’s national security situation has worsened over recent years.

- In March, due to a crime wave, the Peruvian parliament passed a vote of no confidence to the country's interior minister, Juan Jose Santivanez.

- In May, due to a crisis in the security sphere, the Peruvian head of government Gustavo Adrianzen stepped down.

- On October 10, Peru’s Congress unanimously voted to impeach Boluarte.

- Following this, Congress President Jose Jeri was sworn in as the country’s new president.

Investigations into Boluarte’s case

- Peru’s Prosecutor General Tomas Galvez said that he intends to ban Boluarte from leaving the republic.

- Earlier, the office of Peru’s Prosecutor General opened several criminal investigations into Boluarte.

- The agency suspects the former head of state of taking bribes, accessory to protesters’ deaths, dereliction of duty and covering all that up.

About impeachments of Peruvian presidents

- Boluarte became the third Peruvian president to be impeached over the past five years.

- She took the country’s highest office in December 2022 after Pedro Castillo, with whom she ran on the same ticket in 2021, was stripped of his authority.

- In November 2020, Martin Vizcarra was removed as the head of state, this coming after President Pedro Kuczynski resigned ahead of his own impeachment intrigue in March 2018.