Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, survived an impeachment vote Thursday night after 10 members of a hard-right opposition party decided at the last minute to break ranks and abstain rather than vote for the measure.
Peruvian lawmakers began impeachment proceedings over Kuczynski's alleged involvement in a corruption scandal that has called into question his moral fitness to remain in office.
The bulk of Popular Force, led by Fujimori’s daughter Keiko Fujimori, sought to depose Kuczynski as “morally unfit” to govern after discovering business ties he once had with a firm at the center of the region’s biggest graft scandal.
But the party, which last week mustered 93 votes to begin proceedings, failed to secure the 87 needed to pass the motion, thanks to 10 Popular Force abstentions.
The vote capped a week of political turmoil in one of Latin America’s most stable and robust economies, also the world’s second-biggest copper producer.
