ss protest forces Peru’s Interim President to resign

Peru as a nation failed on Sunday when its interim President had to tender his resignation after huge protests. Manuel Marino confirmed his resignation in a short televised address after he was softly threatened by Congress to either resign or face censure.

All of this happened because of a number of things that went wrong among which, the inability of Congress to not fix on the success of Marino was one. In the address, the 59-year-old president said that he had acted within the law. "I, like everyone, want what's best for our country," he said. He added that despite what Congress and protesters suggest, he wants to do what's best for the nation.

When congress elects his success, the leader will be the third President to rule the country in a span of a week. The decision to oust the Interim leader came after hours of unrest and complaints of the people that also led police to act violently which further led to injuring dozens of people and killing two.

One of the HUman rights groups reported that around 112 people were injured and close to 42 people were missing from the scene. One of the witnesses of the police brutality confessed that one of the protesters was shot 11 times while another protester, Jordan Sotelo, 24, was hit four times in the thorax near his heart.

After the incident, a lot of people, including leaders, came forward to support the design of making the President resign. One of them was Luis Valdez. "We should put above all else the lives of the Peruvian people," said Luis Valdez, the current head of Congress, who himself plans to resign. It was confirmed that Marino was not getting the support of his own ministers when 13 out of 19 of his ministers bailed out on him.

Before Marino, Martín Alberto Vizcarra was also forced to resign and congress reasoned poor handling of the pandemic and accused him of taking more than $630,000 in bribes, which is yet to be proved. "This country won't let the deaths of these brave youths go unpunished," Vizcarra wrote. He further blamed the ‘illegitimate’ government for this situation that erupted in Peru.

The recent protests in Peru are reportedly a sign of anger among youth in the country who have only realized the happenings of the government in recent years and have been requesting a change in power. Even in 2018, former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was forced to resign under threat of impeachment over corruption charges after which Vizcarra took over.