“They have chosen us to be government authorities for five years and that is respected in a democracy. and the only agenda I have is the one that the people have given me. I am the vice president of the Republic and from there I will attend to the poorest”, said the vice president Dina Boluarte during a conference to the Foreign Press Association of Peru.
His intention is to give continuity to the “mandate of the people.” This statement contradicts what she herself said in December of last year when she made a different statement. “If the president is vacated, I’m going with the president,” he said then. On that occasion, a vacancy motion was being discussed in Congress, on which he opined that it had no basis “neither political nor technical nor legal nor anything.”
Today the scenario is different. The Congress plan that the vacancy of President Pedro Castillo is the first item on the agenda as soon as the next legislature begins.
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And in order not to fail as in previous attempts, the Avanza Pais bench has already presented a bill to reduce, through a controversial change in the regulations of the Legislative Power, the number of votes necessary to remove the president. From 87 votes to 78. The proposal was promoted by congressmen Norma Yarrow, Roselli Amuruz and Diego Bazán of Avanza País.
extraordinary plenary session
For his part, the congressman from the Somos Perú caucus Wilmar Elera stated that, after approving the reduction of votes to vacate the president due to moral incapacity, an extraordinary plenary session is scheduled to discuss this matter exclusively.
“My advisors are already working on that motion and they are going to start collecting signatures. so that as soon as possible we can convene this extraordinary plenary session so as not to expect that after the election of the board of directors of the capable Congress, it will take another fifteen days to be able to make a vacancy motion. We could move forward”, he declared to the press.
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The aspiration of the parliamentarian it is also to remove Vice President Dina Boluarte through the constitutional accusation that Congress has already advanced to a certain extent. However, these processes will not happen until the new board is installed first. When this happens, the first week of the new legislature they will be able to debate the vacancy motion. After that, they will have to wait another week to put it to a vote.
The opposition could win the vacancy this time, if they get the necessary votes reduced. However, the official factions today are more united than ever.
Plan. The Avanza País bench has Boluarte in its sights. Photo: diffusion
For now, Vladimir Cerrón, leader of the Peru Libre party, has criticized the projects through which Castillo would be removed from power. “What is not won at the polls, is won at the table. Hyper-parliamentarism harms democracy,” she wrote on his Twitter account.
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The Magisterial bench and Democratic Peru would join this line. Of the left-wing congressmen, only Together for Peru would desist from supporting the president.
“First take out Boluarte, then Castillo”
Jorge Montoya (Renovación) said that any action against President Castillo It will be seen after the plenary decides on the constitutional complaint against Boluarte.
“Reconsideration has been requested from the person in charge of supporting the report,” Montoya said. According to him, the legislator of Democratic Change-Together for Peru Edgar Raymundo has an affinity with the vice president, and someone neutral should be in that role.
