Peru's Congress shelves President Boluarte's bill to bring elections forward to 2023, leaving a major demand of protesters up in the air
Residents carry photographs of victims during nationwide protests against President Boluarte, while walking through streets of Puno during a procession.
Boluarte had unveiled a bill to bring elections forward to October 2023 on Wednesday in a bid to calm the deadly protests. A fractured Congress has repeatedly failed to agree on its own bill after weeks of political infighting. Congress had already agreed to bring forward elections originally scheduled for 2026 to 2024 but that did not halt the protests.No consensus in Congress
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