The President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, has urged this Friday the Peruvian Congress to make a decision on bringing forward the elections and has assured that in her government «no one has any interest in clinging to office».
«Let the elections be brought forward to the date and time that the Congress decides», said the Peruvian president, who promised that her government will execute such decision «immediately» and that she has no interest in staying longer as president of Peru, reports Andina news agency.
In this sense, she called on the congressmen to «reach an agreement» either to bring forward the elections to 2024 or to this year, as demanded by those who have been protesting in the streets of the country for eight weeks now.
Before her, the Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, also urged the Congress to reach a decision on the electoral advance, remarking that it is «what the country urgently requires».
«Let them decide, but let them decide now because we need to call elections and establish an electoral calendar (…) what the country urgently requires is that the electoral calendar is defined and that is the responsibility of the Congress», expressed the Peruvian ‘premier’.
In this sense, he has come out to defend the figure of Boluarte, recalling that she has already presented a constitutional reform project to bring forward the elections to April 2024, which is waiting to be ratified in a second vote.
However, the demonstrators are demanding that the elections be brought forward to 2023, a demand that has been echoed by some political forces, most recently Fuerza Popular, whose proposal to hold them in December 2023 has been described by Otárola as «audacious» and insists on Congress to resolve the issue.
It has been eight weeks since thousands of people took to the streets demanding the release of Castillo, an advance of the elections and the formation of a constituent assembly and the departure of Boluarte, requests some of them flatly denied by a government under suspicion and criticism for the more than fifty deaths registered during the repression of the protests.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
