{"id":6703,"date":"2022-09-07T00:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2022-09-07T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:59:28","slug":"peru-head-of-congress-lady-camones-ousted-following-pm-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/07\/news\/6703\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru head of Congress Lady Camones ousted following PM pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6704\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/head_of_peru-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-Head of Peru&#8217;s Congress Lady Camones had been in the position for less than two months.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Broadcasting News Corporation : Peruvian lawmakers on Monday ousted Lady Camones, the head of Congress, just a day after the country\u2019s prime minister publicly demanded her removal over leaked audio that showed her discussing how to use the legislature to benefit her party. Camones had been in the role for less than two months and her ouster underscores how the administration of President Pedro Castillo is pushing back aggressively against a hostile Congress that has already twice impeached him. Although Castillo has survived the impeachment trials, opposition lawmakers, including Camones, have said they would like to try to oust him for a third time. Political turmoil in Peru is common, with Peruvians living under five different presidents since 2016, largely because Congress has launched six different impeachment trials in that period. But the executive\u2019s successful push back against the legislature this time could signal the balance of power is shifting. Camones\u2019 ouster comes as left-wing Castillo is facing increasing legal troubles. Prosecutors have opened a record six criminal investigations against him, including one over obstruction of justice and another over allegedly leading a contracts-for-kickbacks scheme. Three members of his Cabinet \u2013 including Prime Minister Anibal Torres \u2013 are also under investigation, while a former minister and a nephew are on the run. Castillo has repeatedly denied any allegations of wrongdoing and on Monday denied them again, after testifying before Peru\u2019s attorney general in a closed-door deposition. \u201cWe are today stronger and more serene than ever,\u201d Castillo said afterwards. \u201cWe are not going to let our guard down, Peru needs that its authorities be in the frontlines solving the big problems that this country has.\u201d Meanwhile, Torres has taken an active role in confronting Congress, holding a news conference for two hours on Sunday night to demand Camones\u2019 removal. What do you think? Be the first to com. NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcasting News Corporation : Peruvian lawmakers on Monday ousted Lady Camones, the head of Congress, just a day after the country\u2019s prime minister publicly demanded her removal over leaked audio that showed her discussing how to use the legislature to benefit her party. Camones had been in the role for less than two months and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}