Presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
28 July 2016 – 28 March 2018
CabinetSee list
PartyPeruanos Por el Kambio (PPK)
Election2016
SeatPalacio de Gobierno

Standard of the president

The presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru began with his inauguration on Peru independence day (July 28, 2016) and ended with the president's resignation following a corruption scandal on March 23, 2018.[1]

In June 2016, Kuczynski won over Keiko Fujimori of Popular Force with 8,596,937 votes (50.12% of the vote).[2] However, in those same elections, she achieved a majority in the Congress while the ruling group, Peruanos Por el Kambio, drew a few congressmen.[3]

From the beginning, relations between the Legislative and the Executive were strained and on September 15, 2017, the Congress denied the vote of confidence to then president of the Council of Ministers Fernando Zavala, with which Kuczynski had to appoint a new cabinet.[4] This included 5 new ministers and was chaired by the second vice president and also congresswoman Mercedes Aráoz Fernández. His government has also been marked by the Odebrecht case. Kuczynski himself was the subject of two impeachments in Congress for its conflicts of interest with the company, the first of which failed.[5] Soon after, Congress pardoned former President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for felonies against humanity.[6] The decision triggered protests in Lima and eight other cities as well as the resignation of three of its ministers and the criticism of a broad spectrum of personalities. National political crisis finally led to a second process of presidential vacancy, promoted by the Fujimoristas of Popular Force.[7] But a few days before the Congress debated the vacancy request, the Fujimoristas revealed videos and audios that showed that government operators, including a minister of state, were negotiating with a Popular Force congressman to buy their vote against the government vacancy, in exchange for works for your region.[8][9] The next day, the president sent his letter of resignation to Congress, which was accepted on 23 March 2018.[10] That same day the engineer Martín Vizcarra was sworn in as new president, for being in the line of succession as he was the first vice president of the Republic.[11][12]

The slogan of the Kuczynski administration was: "trabajando para tod@s l@s peruan@s" ("Working for all Peruvians" in inclusive language).[13]

  1. ^ PERÚ21, Redacción (23 March 2018). "Pleno acepta renuncia de PPK con 105 votos a favor [EN VIVO]". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Wayback Machine". Retrieved 9 February 2019.Archive index at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Redacción EC (28 June 2017). "Donayre renunció a Fuerza Popular: "No hay una auténtica democracia"". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Patricia Donayre se suma a las filas de Peruanos por el Kambio". larepublica.pe. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  5. ^ Redacción EC (15 September 2017). "Congreso decidió no otorgar la confianza al Gabinete Zavala". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  6. ^ Redacción EC (17 September 2017). "Mercedes Aráoz juró como nueva jefa del Gabinete Ministerial". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  7. ^ Fowks, Jacqueline (18 December 2017). "Kuczynski defiende su inocencia y dice que desconocía los lazos de su empresa con Odebrecht". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  8. ^ Redacción (22 December 2017). "El presidente Pedro Pablo Kuczynski sobrevive a la votación para destituirlo en el Congreso de Perú". Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  9. ^ Fowks, Jacqueline (25 December 2017). "Kuczynski concede un indulto humanitario al expresidente peruano Alberto Fujimori". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  10. ^ Fowks, Jacqueline (29 December 2017). "Protesta masiva en Lima contra Kuczynski por el indulto a Fujimori". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  11. ^ Fowks, Jacqueline; Cué, Carlos E. (27 December 2017). "La ola de rechazo al indulto a Fujimori aísla a Kuczynski". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  12. ^ Llosa, Mario Vargas (31 December 2017). "Tribuna | La traición de Kuczynski". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  13. ^ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (17 January 2017). ""Trabajando para tod@s l@s peruan@s" es el eslogan del gobierno | POLITICA". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 December 2022.