Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, has justified her decision to take the Armed Forces into the country’s streets to contain protests in support of her predecessor in office, Pedro Castillo, on the grounds that many of the demonstrators are being incited by allies of the former president to commit violent acts.
In this sense, Boluarte has endorsed the arguments of the Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, who assured that the deaths during the protests, close to thirty, would have been manipulated by some politicians such as the congressman of Perú Libre Guillermo Bermejo.
Precisely, the Peruvian president wanted to distance herself from that same formation in an interview for the Willax TV channel where she clarified that although she considers herself a woman of the left, she does not follow «a radical ideology».
«I have always wanted people to be equal without any discrimination. If that is called leftist, I am leftist; but I also want to say that I do not have a radical ideology, I do not have an extremist thought, because I believe that radicals and extremist thoughts do a lot of damage to the country», she said.
Boluarte, however, wanted to make it clear that despite his political ideas he wants to govern the country for everyone. «Within these 33 million Peruvians there are people of the right, there are people of the center, there are people of the left. I will govern for all of them, without regard, without discrimination», he said.
On the other hand, she also said that during the year and a half of Castillo’s convulsive government, she always showed her support for him to fulfill his mandate, so she does not understand why she is called a «traitor» and a «usurper».
«I always bet for the completion of his government and he knows it, we always talked in that constitutional dimension. To you, President, you have been elected for five years, finish, but, please, do not make mistakes, do not continue making mistakes'», he said he told Castillo on several occasions.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
