{"id":59632,"date":"2020-01-24T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59632"},"modified":"2020-01-24T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:37:30","slug":"president-set-to-gain-as-peru-heads-to-sunday-congressional-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59632","title":{"rendered":"President set to gain as Peru heads to Sunday congressional polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-131.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-131.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Peru will hold separate parliamentary<br>elections for the first time on Sunday as President Martin Vizcarra looks to<br>break the influence of the main opposition party of Keiko Fujimori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vizcarra dissolved parliament in September following constant clashes<br>between the legislature and the executive that left Peru in a political<br>crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After parliament\u2019s objections were rejected by the constitutional court, a<br>date was set for new parliamentary elections in which Fujimori\u2019s populist<br>right-wing party could lose dozens of its 73 seats in the 130-seat chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fujimori is expected to pay for being implicated in the wide-ranging<br>Odebrecht corruption scandal that saw her spend 13 months in pre-trial<br>detention until she was released in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her Popular Force party has been the major bloc in parliament since the<br>last elections in 2016 and even managed to force Vizcarra\u2019s predecessor Pedro Pablo Kuczynski \u2014 another politician embroiled in the Odebrecht scandal \u2014 from power in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori has seen her<br>popularity plummet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her party\u2019s main allies in the legislature, the social-democrat APRA, have<br>also been hurt by the corruption scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>APRA\u2019s ex-leader Alan Garcia, a two-time former president, committed<br>suicide in April as police turned up at his home to arrest him for corruption<br>related to the Odebrecht case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vizcarra dissolved parliament on Sept 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new parliament will sit for only 16 months with a general election set<br>for April 2021, and the new government due to take office the following July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be 2,300 candidates representing 13 parties, and for the first<br>time there will be an indigenous trans candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 25 million Peruvians are eligible to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election will be observed by the European Union and Organization of<br>American States. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Peru will hold separate parliamentaryelections for the first time on Sunday as President Martin Vizcarra looks tobreak the influence of the main opposition party of Keiko Fujimori. Vizcarra dissolved parliament in September following constant clashesbetween the legislature and the executive that left Peru in a politicalcrisis. After parliament\u2019s objections were [&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\/59632"}],"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=59632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}