Peru’s leader set to face enemies before impeachment vote
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will testify before Peruvian opposition politicians intent on throwing him out of office on Thursday in a sudden impeachment proceeding that threatens to make him the region’s first president to be ousted over the Odebrecht corruption scandal.
The 79-year-old former Wall Street banker is in a fight for his political survival after an opposition-led investigative committee revealed documents showing the Brazilian construction giant at the centre of Latin America’s largest corruption scandal made $782,000 (€660,000) in payments to his private consulting firm a decade ago. Some of the payments overlap with years that Kuczynski spent as a government minister.
