Pedro Castillo: How many votes did the last requests to remove the president get?

President Pedro Castillo faces the third vacancy motion against him under the grounds of permanent moral incapacity in less than a year and a half of management. The motion has 67 signatures and was presented by legislator Edward Málaga.

This Thursday, December 1, the plenary session of Congress must decide whether to admit the motion for debate, for which it requires 52 votes in favor.

If it is admitted, in a following session the president will have the right to exercise his defense alone or with his lawyer, later Parliament will vote on the motion and there are 87 votes in favor that are required to remove the head of state.

LOOK: Pedro Castillo: How many votes does the opposition have and which benches did not sign the vacancy?

How many votes did the last two vacancy motions get?

The first

In November 2021, the opposition groups Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular and Avanza País obtained the 26 signatures necessary to present the motion.

With 76 votes against, 46 in favor and 4 abstentions, the #PlenoDelCongreso rejected the admission of Motion 1222, which proposes declaring the permanent moral incapacity of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo. pic.twitter.com/k2mkeELHEM

— Congress of Peru ?? (@congresoperu) December 8, 2021

However, when the admission to debate was voted, the votes in favor only reached 46, so the motion was filed. On that occasion, only the opposition groups voted in favor, while Perú Libre, Acción Popular, Somos Perú, Juntos Por el Perú and the Partido Morado voted against the vacancy motion against Pedro Castillo.

The second

The second vacancy motion was also promoted by the opposition and was presented in March of this year. On this occasion, Congress did admit the motion for debate by a wide margin: 76 votes in favor, 41 against, and 1 abstentions.

In this way, the president appeared in plenary session of Congress together with his lawyer, José Palomino Manchego, to make his defense against the questions that are poured into the vacancy motion.

“YouEveryone knows that the motion does not contain a single element that validly supports it, since it is a compilation of versions of a sector of the press”, he pointed out before the plenary session of Parliament.