Congress was scheduled to debate Thursday on whether to accept the resignation, which would transfer power to First Vice President Martin Vizcarra. Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, right, arrives to congress with his first Vice-President Martin Vizcarra, left, in Lima, Peru, Dec. 21, 2017. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)A new impeachment vote had been scheduled to take place Thursday and Kuczynski had been scrambling for support. Peru's chief prosecutor and the congress said they would open a criminal probe into the videos. Kuczynski is accused of lying as president about $782,000 in payments his consulting firm received a decade earlier from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Source: CBC News March 22, 2018 00:24 UTC