“We know that they want to take Lima because of everything that is coming out on the networks. And I call you to take Lima, yes, but in peace and calm. I’ll wait for you at the government house to discuss the social agendas you have,” said Boluarte, a Quechuo-speaking lawyer born in the southern Andes, but who is repudiated by the bases, who reproach her for having lent herself to succeed Pedro Castillo, removed and detained. after an attempt to shut down Congress.
Analysts agree that today’s protests could be the beginning of a far-reaching mobilization against a president whose resignation has become a clamor in a large part of the country.
Analysis
“I have the impression that the logic of mobilization will continue. It is not that we are going to be, as some fear, facing an assault on power, but it is evident that it is going to be a new moment that is going to be felt in Lima and the interior of the country and there the distances between Lima and the interior of the country will be shortened”, affirmed the sociologist Eduardo Ballón.
Until now there are marked differences between the provinces –first those of the south and then, with different intensity, those of the center, north and east–, which have joined the fight against Boluarte, in the face of a metropolis that remains in its usual routine and it would seem accept the president’s plan, which points to early elections in April 2024.
This situation changed slightly in the last week, when the capital was also the scene of two massive mobilizations, carried out mainly by students and inhabitants of the northern and eastern suburbs, the most depressed, to which would now be added the arrival of thousands of people of the provinces.
The demands of the mobilized include, in addition to the resignation of Boluarte, the closure of the unpopular Congress, controlled by the right and now an ally of the Executive, the holding of general elections this year, the convening of an Assembly that changes the 1993 Constitution and freedom for Castillo, in provisional detention since he was dismissed for trying to carry out a self-coup.
Dispersion
Some demands, experts say, can sound incoherent. For example, if Boluarte resigned and Congress closed, who would organize the elections? Perhaps the questioned military? Because a return of the ousted former president is not viable. For analysts, this is explainable in the midst of the dispersion of the protest leaders.
“The main characteristic of the mobilizations is that they do not have an organizational hierarchy,” affirmed the political scientist Fernando Tincopa, who believes that for this reason they have gone from “populist” principles to a scenario of “social chaos.”
According to a survey this week by the Institute of Peruvian Studies, Boluarte is rejected by 71% of citizens, which rises to 80% in the south and 87% in the center. Congress is rejected by 88%.
For analysts, the great cause of the divorce is that Boluarte, when he took office, said that he would govern until 2026, the original end of the mandate, which implied not only giving three and a half more years of validity to the repudiated Congress, but also neglecting the popular clamor which, in 83%, demanded immediate general elections.
The president, ideologically formed on the left, backed down and announced elections for December 2023 -in Congress they did not want before April 2024-, but by then there were several deaths, with complaints of excessive force in the repression and the environment it was on fire
Source: Ambito
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