Peruvian Congress removes interim president José Jerí

The 39-year-old conservative was the nation’s eighth president in less than a decade

Peru’s president ousted in ‘express impeachment’ after just four months

Interim president José Jerí voted out by country’s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings Peru’s interim president has been forced out of office in an “express impeachment” after a political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Lawmakers voted by 75 votes to 24 to proceed with the impeachment of José Jerí, who had been at the helm for just four months. Continue reading...

By Dan Collyns in Lima

Peru’s Congress Removes President Jerí After Four Months in Office - Bloomberg

Peru’s Congress Removes President Jerí After Four Months in Office  Bloomberg

Peru removes president Jose Jeri in ‘Chifagate’ scandal tied to Chinese contractor

Peru’s Congress voted on Tuesday to remove President Jose Jeri from office following a series of undisclosed late-night meetings at a Chinese restaurant with a Chinese state contractor, setting off a political scandal dubbed “Chifagate”, a reference to the country’s Chinese-Peruvian fusion cuisine. Lawmakers voted 75-24, with three abstentions, to censure Jeri over the unregistered encounters with businessman Zhihua Yang, whose companies have supplied the state and who owns the restaurant and a...

By Igor Patrick

Peru’s Congress votes to remove President Jose Jeri in latest shake-up

Jeri is the latest in a series of Peruvian presidents to be removed from office by an act of Congress.