Latin American Leader Flouts History With Bid to Step Down Early
- Vizcarra wants to hold an election next year and step down
- President says country needs new beginning after scandals
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Latin America has long suffered from leaders who clung on to power at any cost, trampling democratic institutions in the process. Peru’s current leader is proposing the exact opposite.
After months of tussling with the opposition-controlled Congress over his anti-graft program, President Martin Vizcarra said in an interview that the best option is to call early presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020, in which he won’t be a candidate, to give the country a fresh start.