The political crisis in Peru does not seem to end with the impeachment of the president. Pedro Castillo. So that the pressures of the right factions can replace it, Dina Boluarte, They did not abandon the pretext of staying in the Government until 2026, which was determined by the Constitution, and waited. He began to listen to the secret summoning request. early election.
Although the first president in Peru’s history called for “the broadest unity” and “dialogue among all political forces”, no analyst dared to say how long the “ceasefire” request would be considered. On his second day in charge of the Palacio Pizarro, he had to respond to recommendations to speed up transition times. “I know that There are some voices pointing to early elections. and that’s democratically respectable,” he said. However, he said, “Later and in coordination with all organisations, we will look for alternatives to better reorient the fate of the country.”
The idea of early elections hardly bothers congressmen who don’t want to lose their seats. But Peruvian elites will turn to another agenda. “The end of Casillo does not mean the end of structural problems,” the economy newspaper said. To manage. The priority “must be to restore stability in 2023, and with it the path to economic growth,” he added. In his editorial, he suggested that Boluarte and the opposition would “do well” to “seriously consider” the current interim government not to wait for Castillo to complete his term.
According to the Lima newspaper Republic“It is unclear how long the ceasefire will last.“Boluarte has one thing in common with his ousted predecessor: he lacks his own party and podium in a Parliament that has devoured four presidents since 2018: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Martín Vizcarra, Manuel Merino and Castillo. resource weakness forces him to quickly find support. According to analyst Jeffrey Radzinsky, he should trust the district governors. For now, the first proof of Boluarte’s toughness will be seen shortly when he identifies his cabinet and especially his prime minister, who must seek the approval of the legislature. Carlos Meléndez, columnist TradeHe recommended appointing not a “progressive technocrat” but someone “who would allow him to connect with the representation of the popular world” to compensate for the asymmetry before a Congress “as the object of the wrath of an unharmed, discredited, unequal country”. ”
Fujimori’s neighbor Castillo
The interim president should not only re-establish relations with the parties. One of his first moves was to hand over all the documents he found in Castillo’s office to the prosecutor’s office. The ousted president spent his first night in Diroes prison, where the former autocrat was serving his sentence. Alberto FujimoriOn April 5, 1992, the audacious act that drove Castillo to failure was successful: the dissolution of Congress.
Castillo will remain a prisoner of “el Chino” for at least a week. He will then be tried for sedition. A prison sentence of up to 20 years is foreseen for this crime. The Castillo coup was as temporary as it was on the Persian border. Realizing that his ministers and the army had left him alone, he decided to leave the General Staff with his family through his back door. He was carrying the clothes he was going to enter in his bag. Mexican embassy. Its own president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed that they are waiting for him. Congress dismissed him on his way to diplomatic headquarters. He must have toured that section as an ordinary citizen. And that’s when his detainees got the warrant to arrest him.