{"id":76403,"date":"2026-02-18T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/17\/perus-president-ousted-in-express-impeachment-after-just-four-months"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:56:20","slug":"perus-president-ousted-in-express-impeachment-after-just-four-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76403","title":{"rendered":"Peru\u2019s president ousted in \u2018express impeachment\u2019 after just four months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim president Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed voted out by country\u2019s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings <\/p>\n<p>Peru\u2019s interim president has been forced out of office in an \u201cexpress impeachment\u201d after a political scandal over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/22\/peru-president-chinese-businessmen-secret-meeting\">secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers voted by 75 votes to 24 to proceed with the removal of Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, who had been at the helm for just four months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/17\/perus-president-ousted-in-express-impeachment-after-just-four-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim president Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed voted out by country\u2019s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings Peru\u2019s interim president has been forced out of office in an \u201cexpress impeachment\u201d after a political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,50,1258,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-peru","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76404,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76403\/revisions\/76404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}