PERU - Peru's Congress is set to name a new president Wednesday -- the country's eighth in a decade -- after Jose Jeri was impeached on graft allegations barely four...

months into his term. Jeri, 39, became the latest leader to fall victim to a cycle of institutional turmoil as a powerful Congress battles a weakened executive against a backdrop of chronic corruption and rising violence. On Tuesday, he was ousted by lawmakers for suspected involvement in the irregular hiring of several women in his government and alleged graft involving a Chinese businessman. In a TikTok post Wednesday, Jeri said "serving Peru was, and will remain, an honor." "It is not easy to resolve in a few months what has been pending for decades, but every step was taken with conviction, responsibility and dedication," he added. Jeri maintains his innocence, but for ordinary Peruvians, the political upheaval is just a sideshow to their own daily lives becoming increasingly precarious. "We live in uncertainty," Erick Solorzano, a 29-year-old Peruvian doctor, told AFP, with just two months to go to new presidential elections. In ten years, four presidents have been impeached, two stepped down to avoid the same fate, and only one managed to complete his intended term. "Presidents don't last because of corruption," said Edgardo Torres, a 29-year-old industrial engineer. "We need a true leader in such an unstable country," he told AFP. (Bssnews)