Overview

• The unicameral Congress voted 122 of 130 to remove Boluarte late Thursday into early Friday local time.
• Parliamentary president José Jerí, a conservative, was sworn in to serve until a presidential election planned for mid-April 2026.
• A shooting at an Agua Marina concert in Lima that wounded five people was widely reported as the immediate catalyst for the impeachment drive.
• Official data recorded 6,041 killings from January to mid‑August and 15,989 extortion complaints from January to July, a 28% year‑over‑year increase.
• Boluarte, Peru’s first female head of state, took office after Pedro Castillo’s 2022 removal and governed under corruption investigations and extremely low approval ratings.