Overview

• Lawmakers voted late Thursday to declare Boluarte’s “permanent moral incapacity,” with RPP reporting 124 votes in favor, surpassing the two‑thirds threshold.
• Congress admitted four vacancia motions and accelerated proceedings to the same night, citing her for 11:30 p.m.; she did not appear to present a defense.
• The filings cited the security crisis and alleged failures against extortion and contract killings after the Agua Marina concert attack, along with corruption and abandonment-of-duty accusations.
• Previously supportive blocs including Fuerza Popular, Alianza para el Progreso and Renovación Popular backed removal, forming an unusually broad multi‑party majority.
• Under constitutional succession, Congress president José Jerí is expected to assume the presidency as Boluarte’s legal team prepares challenges before the Constitutional Court and international bodies.