LIMA, Peru (AP) — For the second time in lower than two months, opposition members in Peru’s congress persuaded legislators to undertake a movement Monday that requires President Martin Vizcarra to face an impeachment vote.

The president survived an identical continuing in September when his congressional opponents accused him of obstructing an investigation right into a $50,000 contract for an obscure singer employed to offer motivational talks to public staff.

Vizcarra is now being accused of taking $670,000 in bribes from a development firm whereas he served as governor of Peru’s southern state of Moquegua in 2011-2014.

The president has denied the allegations.

The most recent movement to proceed to an impeachment debate and vote subsequent Monday obtained 60 votes in favor and 40 towards, whereas 18 members of congress abstained.

The president’s critics would wish 87 votes to take away Vizcarra from workplace. The president will probably be allowed to reply questions in congress, or ship a lawyer to signify him.

Vizcarra was Peru’s vp from 2016 to 2018 and took workplace when President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was impeached amid a corruption scandal.

Vizcarra’s presidency has been marked by clashes with congress, which he dissolved final 12 months in a bid to stamp out corruption. A brand new congress was elected in January, however the president nonetheless lacks congressional allies.

Vizcarra, whose time period ends in the course of subsequent 12 months, is the fifth Peruvian president to be investigated for allegations of corruption this decade. His predecessors have been put beneath home arrest and one among them killed himself as police ready to arrest him at house.