President of Peru, Dina Boluarte asked this Friday whether her government was “mistakable in finding peace and quiet” and “sorry”.He confirmed that he would not step down to overcome the country’s crisis, whose protests resulted in 49 deaths in a month and 21 last week, and that he would continue to “promote social peace dialogue”. “I apologize to the people of Peru if we made a mistake in finding peace and quiet,” Boluarte said in a message to the nation.
The President, who has not made a press statement since last Monday, announced that he would not resign and reaffirmed his Government’s commitment to “continue to foster dialogue and social peace” in the country. He reiterated that he “doesn’t want to stay in power” in this sense and asked Congress. change date forward It will vote on the bill submitted by the Administration to hold general elections in April 2024. “I will not resign, my commitment is to Peru, not this small group that is bleeding the country,” he said.
Boluarte assured that “the country deserves to know the truth objectively and promptly” about the deaths recorded in citizen protests, and welcomed the Public Ministry’s investigations to “identify those responsible”. However, he demanded that “everything be investigated” regarding “foreign spies and agitators” allegedly “responsible for violent acts” according to him.
Expressing regret over the deaths of 41 demonstrators and a police officer in the protests, the president called for an end to the violence, although he acknowledged that there was “a fair claim” by citizens expressing their “discontent” behind the protests. unsatisfied demands” and has been relegated for decades. “These demands must be addressed immediately,” he said.
He added that since he assumed the presidency of Peru after the failed self-coup by former president Pedro Castillo, he was aware that he was “in the middle” of the country. a serious political crisis”. “We got a polarized country with extremist sectors trying to create disorder and chaos with clear secondary interests,” he said. Along these lines, he refers to the “promises” that Castillo, of which Boluarte is vice-president, had made “in the squares and in the so-called decentralized Councils of Ministers during those year and a half.”