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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Alexander Villegas

Peru Congress shelves President Boluarte's bill for early elections

Demonstrators hold a banner that says "killer Dina resign" during a protest demanding Peru's President Dina Boluarte to step down, in Cuzco, Peru February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Paul Gambin

Peru's Congress shelved President Dina Boluarte's bill to bring elections forward to 2023 on Friday night, leaving a major demand of demonstrators whose protests have rocked the country in recent weeks up in the air.

Boluarte had unveiled a bill to bring elections forward to October 2023 on Wednesday in a bid to calm the deadly protests. A fractured Congress has repeatedly failed to agree on its own bill after weeks of political infighting.

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