Pedro Pablo Kuczynski: Under fire Peru president resigns
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Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has quit over a vote-buying scandal.
He has denied wrongdoing but said on Wednesday that he did not want to be an obstacle to the country's development.
Party leaders in Congress later agreed to accept President Kuczynski's resignation. He had been facing an impeachment vote on Thursday.
Pressure has been growing after footage emerged of his allies offering opposition politicians financial rewards if they backed him in the vote.
Mr Kuczynski, 79, survived a separate impeachment vote in December.
His opponents wanted to remove him for allegedly receiving illegal payments from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
But he held onto power by a slim margin and accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup.
In an address to the nation, Mr Kuczynski said the video footage had been edited to incriminate him.
"The opposition has tried to paint me as a corrupt person and they have managed to influence a group of reasonable and honest workers around me, getting them unfairly involved in this plot to destroy the government," he said.
"I categorically reject these unsubstantiated claims and reaffirm my commitment to an honest, moral and fair Peru for everyone."
Scandal impacting regional politics
Analysis by Daniel Gallas, BBC South America business correspondent
The scandal involving bribes paid by Brazilian construction companies to politicians has made another high-profile victim in Latin America.
This time it is the president of Peru, who resigned on Wednesday despite claiming his innocence.
Mr Kuczynski had to leave office not so much due to the actual accusations. Similar claims have been made against all major political players in Peru, including the opposition that forced him to step down.
Instead he lost support because of the way he handled the scandal.
In December he pardoned former President Alberto Fujimori from jail in an apparent deal with lawmakers to avoid an impeachment. And now footage has emerged of government jobs being used as bargaining tokens for the same reason.
Four years after the beginning of the investigations, Brazil's "Car Wash" scandal is impacting politics in the region.
Next week, Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a front-runner in presidential polls ahead of elections in October, could be sent to jail.
Mr Kuczynski is a former Wall Street banker who studied at the University of Oxford in southern England. He narrowly won power in the 2016 presidential election.
His resignation will be formally voted on in Congress - which is controlled by the opposition - on Thursday.
According to the Peruvian Constitution, first Vice-President Martin Vizcarra will become acting president in his place.