“Vote for Peru, in favor of the country, advancing the elections to 2023 and let’s say to all of Peru with the highest responsibility that we are all leaving,” he added.
The first vote on the advancement of the elections took place last Saturday and was rejected by the majority of Congress. In the event of rejection being imposed again, The president threatened a constitutional reform to be able to carry out the electionswith the first round in October of this year and the second in December, according to the news agency. AFP.
Boluarte explained his change of position in relation to the presidential elections: “From the Executive we had proposed for these elections to be brought forward to April 2024. Nevertheless, the protests continuethere are more blockades and violence”.
The protests continue in Peru: a new death in Lima
A protester died last night in the middle of a strong police repression in Lime, the first death in the capital after weeks of riots in southern Andean regions of Peru calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.
with this demise There are 48 deaths -among them a policeman- in the framework of the protests that began the second week of December after the impeachment and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo and his replacement by his former Vice President Boluarte.
With the sound of detonations of tear gas bombs, the center of Lima was the battlefield this past Saturday, in the midst of a social upheaval that after 52 days of Boluarte’s government shows no signs of subsiding, the AFP news agency reported.
Source: Ambito
