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Peru Lawmakers Seek to Block Asylum for Boluarte as Vacancia Drive Escalates

Her lawyer rejects talk of resignation or asylum.

Overview

  • Lawmakers Patricia Chirinos and Elías Varas sent formal letters to the embassies of Brazil, Ecuador and other missions urging them not to grant political asylum to President Dina Boluarte.
  • Elías Varas and other opposition figures asked the Public Ministry to evaluate an impediment for the president to leave the country.
  • Dozens of protesters gathered outside Ecuador’s embassy in San Isidro and near Congress, prompting a visible police presence, with no major incidents reported.
  • Boluarte’s attorney, Juan Carlos Portugal, said after a visit to the presidential palace that they have not discussed resignation or asylum and that he is reviewing about eleven fiscal cases involving her.
  • Multiple motions to declare Boluarte’s ‘permanent moral incapacity’ are before Congress, and some outlets report the motions were admitted and that she was summoned for 11:30 a.m., a step not yet widely confirmed.