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Urgent: President Kuczynski survives impeachment vote in Peru

Xinhua,December 22, 2017 Adjust font size:

LIMA, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian President Pablo Kuczynski survived an impeachment vote on Thursday after the Congress failed to pass a motion against him over graft allegations.

The motion failed to gain enough votes to be approved after more than 10 hours' debates by lawmakers in a session.

Two-thirds of the vote in Congress were required to approve an impeachment. Enditem