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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Marco Aquino and Kylie Madry

Peru president urges Congress to bring elections forward amid deadly protests

Peru's President Dina Boluarte attends a meeting with mayors and governors at the Government Palace, in Lima, Peru December 17, 2022. Peru Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, who has said she is leading a transitional government, urged the country's Congress to pass a proposal to bring forward general elections in a news conference from the presidential palace on Saturday.

Boluarte, formerly Peru's vice president, assumed the presidency earlier this month after leftist then-President Pedro Castillo tried to illegally dissolve Congress and was arrested.

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