The ambassador Ana Cecilia Gervasi is the new Minister of Foreign Relationsin Economy and Finance appointed Alex Contreras. In Defense appointed Luis Otárola, who held that portfolio with President Ollanta Humala (2011-2016). The incorporation of ministers with more technical than political profile, as the Congress demanded, it can open space for the truce that Boluarte requested.
“The President of the Republic must make prompt decisionssuch as his cabinet, and immediate decisions to get out of certain difficulties and generate confidence and tranquility”, José Williams, head of Congress, had asked early Peruvian dominated by the right. “I ask the population to calm down. It is a bad moment that Peru had to go through, but it has to be overcome in the best way,” he pointed out to RPP radio, in his first statements since Congress removed Castillo.
Boluarte was sworn in as the first female president of Peru a few hours after Castillo, who was facing a series of investigations for alleged perks in the distribution of public contracts, was removed in a vote by Congress. Castillo had tried to avoid that vote, the third against him since he took office 18 months ago, seeking to dissolve the Legislature and announcing that he would rule by decree. But his orders were disregarded by Congress and the Armed Forces. “The Constitution had been violated”Williams said Saturday in justifying Castillo’s removal.
After his failure to establish the state of exceptionCastillo was detained by his own escort while on his way to the Mexican embassy to request political asylum and was placed on Thursday in pretrial detention for seven days. The prosecution accuses him of rebellion and, if found guilty, he would face between 10 and 20 years in prison.
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Boluarte held three days of negotiations with leaders of the right-wing party benches present in Congress, before the defection of the left to join the talks. The decision to govern until the end of the mandate de Castillo, on July 28, 2026, is at the origin of the new problems.
Demand for new elections is associated with overwhelming rejection of Congress: According to November polls, 86% of Peruvians disapprove of parliament. the apparent Boluarte’s slow decision-making uncovered the social pressure cookerwith marches of regular magnitude and road blocks demanding new elections and the release of Castillo.
Boluarte did not rule out calling early elections on Friday in search of a peaceful solution to the political crisis, and urged the population to calm down. Meanwhile, on Saturday afternoon the gaze was focused on a march in Lima called by groups of students, workers and left-wing political parties after the matches of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
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In the rest of the country, roadblocks continue for the third day in the southern parts of the country where Castillo enjoys the greatest support. However, the protesters have not grown in number. in the regions Ica and Arequipa continued to block several sections of the Panamericana, the main highway that crosses the country from north to south, leaving dozens of buses and cargo trucks stranded.
In Lima, thousands of protesters who tried to reach the headquarters of Congress on Thursday and Friday were harshly repressed. The police used tear gas to break up the mobilization that left some detainees. “Dina Boluarte does not represent us because she is a usurper, we have not chosen her,” María Tolentino, a housewife who was participating in Friday’s marches in Lima, told AFP.
The events caused The police will announce the suspension of vacations and permits of its personnel until new order”. For its part, the prosecution continued questioning the ex-ministers of Castillo this Saturday for the alleged crime of rebellion.
Castillo’s former chief of staff, Aníbal Vásquez, announced his “going underground” for having also been denounced for rebellion. At the police base where the former president is detained by court order, Dozens of Castillo supporters held a vigil and communal pot in solidarity and demanded his release.
Source: Ambito
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