Herrera died this afternoon due to a cardiorespiratory arrest, said the head of the ruling Peru Libre (PL) party, Waldemar Cerrón, in statements to journalists, according to the Lima daily El Comercio.
The legislator had not attended the session but died at home, reported the weekly Caretas on its website.
Shortly after 5:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. in Argentina), the first vice president of Congress, Lady Camones, who at that time was conducting the session, abruptly suspended it for a reason of “urgency”, without the cause being revealed at first, according to the local media.
Minutes later, the president of the Congress, María del Carmen Alva, confirmed that it was due to the death of Herrera, a congresswoman for the southern department of Tacna, and that, due to the mourning, the session was postponed until tomorrow at 9 o’clock.
The plenary session of parliament had been debating for an hour and a half the question of the constitutional vote of confidence in the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez, after she presented the guidelines of her administration in the morning.
The debate was scheduled to last between three and four hours, and then legislators had to vote whether or not to grant Vásquez the vote of confidence.
“It is up to us to be able to walk together towards governance” and “achieve consensus,” the chief of staff remarked in her presentation.
The official warned that the country “is going through a difficult time,” in which “added to the health crisis, the political tension places citizens in the middle of a scenario of tension that has lasted after the start of the government.” the last 28 of July.
Vasquez He assumed the presidency of the Council of Ministers on the 6th of this month, after Castillo dismissed his predecessor, Guido Bellido, and has a constitutional term of 30 days to obtain the confidence of Congress.
If trust was denied, Vasquez he will have to resign and the agent will appoint a new management team.
“I am confident that the responsibility and sanity of the banks will allow us to implement the general government policy to advance in containing the pandemic, economic reactivation and make the wishes of our people come true,” Castillo wrote on Twitter.
Vásquez, meanwhile, also declared confident in “the good faith of the various political groups who, without the need to depose but rather contribute from their ideological positions, may have the willingness to dialogue so that the State, 200 years after its Republican life, may he fulfill his promise of equality and independence. “
To achieve the vote of confidence, the cabinet needs 66 wills, in a highly fragmented Congress in which PL has the first minority with only 37 of the 130 seats.
Read in local media as a nod from Castillo to the moderate wing of the Peruvian left, Vásquez’s appointment came after the departure of Bellido, a figure of the hard wing of Peru Libre, who maintained several crosses with Congress and lasted 68 days in the post.
The head of the Council of Ministers, who comes from the Broad Front – a moderate left coalition – led Congress between November 2020 and July 2021, during the interim government of President Francisco Sagasti.
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