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Martin Vizcarra will become the fifth president of Peru in recent years amid the period of political turmoil.

A judge in the Peruvian state in South America has ordered the former president of the country, Martin VezkaraThat will be held in pre -trial detention on bribery allegations.

In a listening session on Wednesday, Judge Jorge Chavez Vezkara ordered a five -month prison prison, saying that he was a flight risk. He is accused of accepting bribes during his term as a governor of the Moquegua region 11 years ago.

Vizcarra is the fifth president who is being held in Peru, which was rocked by many political scandals and crises over the past few years. Peru has had six presidents since 2018.

For his part, Vizkaka denied the charges against him, saying that it was a form of political persecution. He had planned to run for the presidency again in 2026.

The judge rejected a previous request for his detention in June, but the public ministry insisted that he was the risk of flying and appealed to the decision. His lawyers said he would seek to resume his detention.

There are three other former, Alejandro Toulido, Uanta Hemaala, and Pedro Castillo, are currently being held in a special facility that was built for former leaders in the country at a police base in the capital of Lima.

Vizcarra, which was investigated and removed from his post by office in 2020, is likely to join them. Critics accused the Peru conference of launching military dismissal efforts against political competitors, using Mysterious fees Like “moral deficit”.

The facility includes the former president first Alberto FujimoriAnd, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009 due to human rights violations committed during his dictatorial period. It was a controversial amnesty in 2023, in a challenge to an order of the Human Rights Court between America, and he died of cancer the following year.

President Dina Bolwart, who reached his position after the prison of former President Castillo after an attempt to dissolve Congress, signed a law earlier today Offer pardon To government security officials and alignment groups who committed rights violations during a decades -long campaign against the armed group.

Rights groups have condemned the pardon bill as a form of impunity due to serious violations.