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Reuters
Politics
Marcelo Rochabrun

Peru PM denies domestic violence allegations as new crisis heats up

FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Peru's President Pedro Castillo gather as Prime Minister Mirtha Vasquez faces a critical vote of no confidence from the opposition-led Congress in Lima, Peru, November 4, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File Photo

Peru's new prime minister, Hector Valer, denied on Thursday that he had beat his daughter and late wife - the subject of two police complaints - as the country's third Cabinet in six months appeared to be on increasingly shaky ground.

"I am not an abuser, I am not someone who hits (others), I am not what the complaint at the police station says," Valer said at a news conference on his third day on the job.

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