{"id":79054,"date":"2026-02-19T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/jose-maria-balcazar-elected-perus-new-interim-president\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:38","slug":"jose-maria-balcazar-elected-perus-new-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/jose-maria-balcazar-elected-perus-new-interim-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar elected Peru\u2019s new interim president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a332cfa3b4eb7cfb67821e03694d5354e396802e\/73_40_3891_3113\/master\/3891.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=aa83d63485c79841a1f834ba897682c8\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar elected Peru\u2019s new interim president\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar elected Peru\u2019s new interim president<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Octogenarian leftist, who has defended child marriage, replaces Jose Jeri, who was voted out after a scandalPeru\u2019s congress elected Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar, an octogenarian leftist lawmaker who has defended child marriage, as the country\u2019s new interim president on Wednesday ahead of general elections in April. Balcazar is Peru\u2019s ninth president since 2016.The surprise election, in which Balc\u00e1zar beat the favourite, conservative lawmaker Mar\u00eda del Carmen Alva, came after lawmakers voted to remove his predecessor Jos\u00e9 Jer\u00ed, on Tuesday, after just four months in office, due to a scandal over secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/19\/jose-maria-balcazar-elected-peru-interim-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar elected Peru\u2019s new interim president Octogenarian leftist, who has defended child marriage, replaces Jose Jeri, who was voted out after a scandalPeru\u2019s congress elected Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar, an octogenarian leftist lawmaker who has defended child marriage, as the country\u2019s new interim president on Wednesday ahead of general elections in April. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}