New effort to weaken Peru's Castillo targets his vice president


FILE PHOTO: Peruvian President-elect Pedro Castillo and his Vice President Dina Boluarte take oath of office before receiving credentials from election authority after confirmed win, in Lima, Peru, July 23, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/Pool

LIMA (Reuters) - Even as Peru's embattled president faces fresh corruption probes from prosecutors as well as an opposition-led Congress, some lawmakers are simultaneously aiming to take down his vice president in a separate bid to weaken him, sources told Reuters.

Leftist President Pedro Castillo, still in his first year in office, has already survived two previous efforts by conservative critics in Congress to remove him from power, amid deepening economic and political turmoil in the Andean nation, the world's second-biggest copper miner.

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