“By Christmas we will probably have a new president,” Eduardo Dargent, a political-science professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, said before the vote. He noted that Mr. Kucynski’s party holds only a few seats in Congress to defend him. Unlike impeachment proceedings, the ouster proposed by lawmakers would not require a lengthy trial, he said. Mr. Kuczynski, 79, has refused to step down. Mr. Kuczynski is the latest in a growing list of leaders who have been accused or sentenced to crimes related to the scandal.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2017 00:09 UTC