LIMA (Reuters) - Two-time president Alan Garcia could be barred from running in Peru's next election as Congress investigates him for freeing thousands of drug dealers from prison during his last term.
A congressional commission probing Garcia's 2006-2011 administration has evidence of corruption and may recommend a vote to strip the centrist Garcia of his political rights for years, said Sergio Tejada, a lawmaker from President Ollanta Humala's leftist party who heads the committee.
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