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Peru's president dissolved its Congress hours before he faced a corruption impeachment trial

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo said Wednesday that he will dissolve the nation's Congress.Castillo assumed office a year ago and has so far survived two impeachment attempts.Embattled Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve the nation's Congress just hours before he was set to face a third impeachment trial.

"In response to the clamour from citizens throughout the country, we make the decision to establish an emergency government aimed at restoring the rule of law and democracy," Castillo said,Castillo, who assumed office more than a year ago and has so far survived two impeachment attempts, said he would rule by decree and declared a national nightly curfew starting Wednesday,The president pushed the Andean nation into a fresh political crisis just before lawmakers were scheduled to try...

A certain portion of Congress, Castillo said in his speech,"has as its only agenda item removing me from office because they never accepted the results of an election that you, my dear Peruvians, determined with your votes," the AP reported.

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