LIMA, Peru—Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, resigned on Sunday after the country’s political parties demanded he step down or face impeachment following the deaths of two people in protests over the sudden ouster of his predecessor that some analysts say was a coup.
Merino had been in office for less than a week, after Peru’s Congress voted last Monday ironically to remove the anti-corruption president Martin Vizcarra over bribery allegations, which he denies. Lawmakers are set to meet later today to determine who should be the country’s next president, or at least, how he or she might be chosen.
