“The advancement of elections is in your hands, the Executive complied by presenting the bill,” he said and added: “I demand that the vote be reconsidered.”
Congress did not achieve yesterday the qualified majority that required the advancement of the elections from 2026 to 2023 -because it implies a constitutional reform- and before the requested reconsideration could be analyzed, the session was suspended without a new date by the head of the unicameral body, Jose Williams.
In the midst of crosses and shouts, the differences surfaced around whether a Constituent Assembly should be promoted, simultaneously with the general elections.
The left and center-left benches were the ones who considered that the crisis was not resolved only with elections, but that it was necessary to modify the magna carta so that the same thing does not happen to a future Executive as that of the dismissed Pedro Castillo, eroded since his inauguration by a fragmented but markedly opposition Congress.
The session marked another difficulty in the open process with the dismissal of Castillo, on Wednesday of last week, and the assumption in his place of the then vice Boluarte.
“There is a group that wants Dina to resign, but what is resolved with that? We are going to stand firm here until Congress resolves the early elections. We must stand firm to defend democracy,” said the president, who said that it is not time for “political revenge”.
On the other hand, he described as “unnecessary violence” the protests in various parts of Peru that demand the release of Castillo, his resignation, the closure of Congress and immediate elections. These demonstrations began on December 7 after the removal of the president, arrested and accused of rebellion after announcing the dissolution of Parliament.
“What is the purpose of closing airports and burning police stations and judicial offices? These are not peaceful marches, they are not social demands”, pointed out the president, who assured that these groups “had tactically organized to seize airports and block highways.” “If the Armed Forces came out, it is to protect them because the situation of violent groups had been overflowing,” she said when defending the decree that established a state of emergency at the national level for a period of 30 days.
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Boluarte, who has been in office for ten days, also announced a prompt reshuffle of his Cabinet to better face the crisis, after two of his ministers resigned yesterday in rejection of the repression of the protests.
The president also denounced the machismo that exists behind the resignation requests to the first president that the country had in its 201-year history. For this reason, she urged Peruvians to stop “violence against women” and let her work “in peace, calmly” so as not to lead “a government of words”, but of deeds.
“Let’s put aside the macho concept. It may hurt that for the first time a woman assumes the presidency of the Republic. Let’s give women the opportunity,” he concluded, according to the newspaper El Comercio.
Source: Ambito
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