page_title: 2017–2020 Peruvian political crisis
section_title: Resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
hierarchical_section_title: 2017–2020 Peruvian political crisis / Third period / Resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
caption_attribution_description: Español: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski en su ultimo mensaje a la nación anunciando su renuncia al cargo presidencial.
context_page_description: The 2017–2020 Peruvian political crisis is an ongoing period of political instability in the Republic of Peru during the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, between 15 September 2017 and 23 March 2018, and since 7 July 2018 under the government of Martín Vizcarra.
  It can be divided so far into seven periods: The first period or "first crisis" was due to a series of events that officially ended on 15 September 2017 in a total fracture of the State in two. On the one hand the Executive, called "officialism", led by the constitutionally elected president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and on the other the Congress of the Republic of Peru controlled mostly by the Fujimorist Popular Force party that calls itself "the opposition" led by its leader Keiko Fujimori. On 13 October, the Congress of the Republic dominated by the opposition resumed relations with the ruling party, albeit in a fragile manner.
context_section_description: Faced with the foreseeable scenario that awaited him in the debate scheduled for the Congress on the 22nd, PPK opted to renounce the Presidency of the Republic, sending the respective letter to Congress, and giving a televised message to the Nation, which was transmitted to the two and forty in the afternoon of 21 March 2018.
  I think the best thing for the country is for me to renounce the Presidency of the Republic. I do not want to be a stumbling block for our nation to find the path of unity and harmony that is so badly needed and denied to me. I do not want the country or my family to continue suffering with the uncertainty of recent times (...) There will be a constitutionally ordered transition.
  — Kuczynski, in his message of resignation to the Presidency of the Republic. Lima, March 21, 2018.
  The Board of Spokespersons of the Congress, although rejected the terms of the letter of resignation of PPK, arguing that this did not make any self-criticism and victimized, accepted the same and scheduled for 22 March, from four in the afternoon, a debate in Congress to evaluate the resignation. That debate lasted until the next day. Although a section of congressmen on the left argued that the resignation of PPK should not be accepted and that Congress should proceed to vacancy due to moral incapacity, the majority of congressmen considered that it should be accepted, in order to put an end to the crisis. When the preliminary text of the resolution of the Congress was published, in which it was indicated that the president had "betrayed the fatherland", PPK announced that it would withdraw its letter of resignation if that qualification was maintained. The Board of Spokesmen decided then to omit that expression. The resignation was accepted with 105 votes in favor, 12 against and 3 abstentions. Moments later, the first vice-president Martín Vizcarra was sworn in as the new constitutional president of the Republic. Soon after, the new government announced that its prime minister would be César Villanueva, the same who had been the main promoter of the second Presidential vacancy against PPK.
caption: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announcing his resignation from the presidential office in his last message to the nation.
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