The Peruvian political system is of an attenuated presidentialism, but despite this the head of state is the heart of power. Such ups and downs only increase the mistrust of broad social sectors who perceive that politics, more than not solving their lives, complicate it.
Castillo’s victory – a curious mixture of socioeconomic progressivism and social conservatism – over Keiko Fujimori was produced by just over 44 thousand votes, something that produced a bitter dispute after the scrutiny and which, given recent history, augured strong shocks. Fear is not stupid.
The story of the ephemeral Castillo era cannot be fully told if the blundering judgment of the deposed president – a true makeshift – is not recorded, which included several scandals and having surrounded himself with unpresentable collaborators who came to make Nazi-like statements without flinching. But neither is justice done to the facts if it is not noted that Congress, as in the preceding five-year period, indulged in a frantic attitude of dismissal, which included, until the end, three vacancy motions for “permanent moral incapacity”. a legal device that, by dint of repetitions, is already becoming the new way of carrying out coups in Peru.
Perhaps fed up, perhaps confident in forces that he did not have, Castillo decided before the last motion to become an unexpected Alberto Fujimori, dissolving Congress 30 years after the president of sad memory had done so.
The problem is that it took that path without the necessary legal basis, that is, that Congress had previously censured or denied confidence in two Councils of Ministers. He wanted to carry out a self-coup, he miscalculated the military support and it ended badly. In the end, the third time was the charm.
It will now be up to whoever was his vice president, Dina Boluarte, to do something similar to governing, before the threatening gaze of a fragmented Congress, more unpopular than Castillo – 73% of the population rejects him – and devoted to permanent conspiracy. While millions of Peruvians are still waiting to receive their part of a macro bonanza that never finished taking them into account.
As is already known throughout the region, governing is one thing and having power is quite another. Boluarte, like so many before her, now looks at that bitter apprenticeship.
Source: Ambito
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