Overview

• Lawmakers approved the vacancia for “permanent moral incapacity” with well over the 87 votes required, citing the government’s failure to curb rising criminality.
• José Jerí, then president of Congress, took the oath as interim head of state under constitutional succession rules hours after the vote.
• Dina Boluarte did not attend the congressional session to exercise her defense before the final vote on the motions.
• Prosecutors are preparing to ask a court to bar Boluarte from leaving the country as ongoing corruption and rights-abuse investigations proceed, according to local reports.
• Local media initially reported uncertainty over Boluarte’s whereabouts after she left the Palace; a defense lawyer later stated she was at home.