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Politics
Marco Aquino and Carolina Pulice

Peru's Castillo comes out fighting after impeachment vote, slams 'institutional crisis'

Peru's President Pedro Castillo waves as he walks a day after lawmakers voted to start an impeachment process against him, in Lima, Peru March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday rejected allegations of corruption and told Congress, which passed a motion to impeach him earlier this week that all branches of government are in crisis right now.

"Peru is going through an institutional crisis without precedent," Castillo said in a rare hour-long speech. "We will send to the Congress of the republic a set of reforms that will allow us to overcome this structural crisis," he said.

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