00:00On Wednesday, the Peruvian Congress elected Congressman José María Balcaza as the new president following the destitution of right-wing
00:08politician José Geri as interim president of the South American country.
00:12The plenary session began at 6 p.m. where they elected the new president who will assume the leadership of
00:20the legislature and become the eighth president of the republic in less than a decade.
00:26The election of Geri's successors took place in an extraordinary plenary session convened in person.
00:32Fernando Rosvillosi, the first vice president of Congress, who temporarily assumed the leadership of the parliament and the executive to
00:41avoid a power vacuum, presided over the process.
00:44The new president shone in and took office immediately.
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