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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo dissolved the nation's Congress and called for new legislative elections, but the Congress rejected the decree and voted to replace him with the vice president.
President Pedro Castillo has been overwhelmingly voted out by a count of 101 to six with ten abstentions by the country's congress and replaced with his vice president.
Congress voted to remove Pedro Castillo and appointed his vice president to lead the nation.
Castillo had tried to beat lawmakers to the punch as they prepared to debate a third attempt to remove him from office.
Peru’s Congress voted to remove President Pedro Castillo from office Wednesday and replace him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo tried to dissolve the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to remove him.