{"id":500473,"date":"2026-02-18T23:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-leftist-jose-maria-balcazar-is-the-new-interim-president-of-peru\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:19:46","slug":"the-leftist-jose-maria-balcazar-is-the-new-interim-president-of-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-leftist-jose-maria-balcazar-is-the-new-interim-president-of-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"The leftist Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar is the new interim president of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Lima<\/strong>.- The Congress of Peru elected octogenarian left-wing parliamentarian Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar as the new president of the Andean country this Wednesday, replacing the right-winger Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, whom the Peruvian Legislature dismissed the day before, after barely four months in office and less than two months before the general elections.\n\nBalc\u00e1zar, 83 years old, was the most voted by the Peruvian chamber to fill the vacancy left by Jer\u00ed as president of Congress, which automatically makes him interim president of Peru in the absence of authorities elected by popular vote, after the dismissals of Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) and Dina Boluarte (2022-2025).\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe legislator, from the Marxist party Per\u00fa Libre, with which Castillo won the 2021 elections, became the oldest president in the country&#8217;s history, and the eighth ruler in almost a decade of political crisis.\n\nYour mission will be to serve as interim head of state until July 28, when you must hand over the presidential command to the winner of the presidential elections that are already underway.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lima.- The Congress of Peru elected octogenarian left-wing parliamentarian Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar as the new president of the Andean country this Wednesday, replacing the right-winger Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, whom the Peruvian Legislature dismissed the day before, after barely four months in office and less than two months before the general elections. Balc\u00e1zar, 83 years old, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26c9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}