{"id":44521,"date":"2019-10-01T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44521"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:40:37","slug":"peruvian-president-vizcarra-dissolves-opposition-run-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44521","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian President Vizcarra dissolves opposition-run Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/09\/30\/multimedia\/30peru\/merlin_161873247_d4573d1f-5115-4b67-acaa-8583a06ecdd1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Demonstrators celebrating after President Mart\u00edn Vizcarra dissolved the legislature in Lima, Peru, on Monday.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Demonstrators celebrating after President Mart\u00edn Vizcarra dissolved the legislature in Lima<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, Oct 1 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra dissolved the nation&#8217;s opposition-run Congress to clear way for his anti-corruption efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disbandment after lawmakers proceeded with holding a controversial vote to replace almost all the members of the Constitutional Tribunal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the face of the factual denial of the vote of confidence, and with unlimited respect for the constitutional policy of Peru, I have decided to constitutionally dissolve the Congress and call for congressional elections,&#8221; the president said in a message to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vizcarra&#8217;s decision came after the Congress brought forward a vote to choose new members of the Constitutional Tribunal in a disputed session meant to take place on Tuesday at 16:00 local time (2100 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a constitutional act provided for in Article 134 of the Constitution,&#8221; said the head of state, who denounced the &#8220;political traps and tricks&#8221; carried out by the legislative body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vizcarra, who has a popular approval, seeks in this way to end the institutional crisis of the country, whose upper levels of politics have been mired in corruption allegations and plummeting faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Article 134 of the Constitution, after the dissolution of Congress, new legislative elections must proceed &#8220;within four months of the date of the dissolution, and without the possibility of altering the preexisting electoral system.&#8221; &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators celebrating after President Mart\u00edn Vizcarra dissolved the legislature in Lima LIMA, Oct 1 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra dissolved the nation&#8217;s opposition-run Congress to clear way for his anti-corruption efforts. The disbandment after lawmakers proceeded with holding a controversial vote to replace almost all the members of the Constitutional Tribunal. &#8220;In the face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}