Peru's President Martin Vizcarra greets people as he arrives to Monantay in Pucallpa, Peru August 9, 2018. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo
PUCALLPA, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra has rejected calls to include measures proposed by opposition lawmakers in a national anti-corruption referendum that would bar them from serving consecutive terms in Congress.
His comments, in a Reuters interview on Thursday, underscore the increasingly prickly relationship between Vizcarra's less than five-month-old centrist government and the conservative opposition Popular Force party, which helped topple former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski after graft and vote-buying allegations.
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