Lima, (EFE).- The new president of PeruDina Boluarte, assured this Saturday that the fundamental lines of her Government will be to consolidate democracy and governability, minutes after taking the oath of her first cabinet, three days after assuming the head of State to replace Pedro Castillo, arrested and accused to attempt a coup.
“The consolidation of democracy, the rule of law, the balance of powers and governability in the country is the essential line of my government,” said Boluarte, who became the sixth person to occupy the Presidency of Peru on Wednesday. six years.
Immediately afterwards, he made a “fraternal call for calm, tranquility and social peace” in Peru, after the protests that have left at least seven detainees and eight injured in the last few hours.
Boluarte became president last Wednesday, after Castillo was dismissed by Congress, in response to a measure announced by the then president that ordered the closure of Parliament, the formation of an emergency executive, the Government by decree, the reorganization of the judicial system and the convocation of a constituent assembly.
These measures were mostly considered a coup, including by Boluarte, who held the vice presidency at the time and who was elected in 2021 in the candidacy headed by Castillo.
In this sense, the new president asked to avoid “conflicts that put at risk” the “brotherhood” of citizens.
“I am attentive to social concerns and demands and I offer my open hand to meet fair claims,” he said, referring to the small demonstrations that have taken place in different parts of the country in rejection of Congress.
NO “BLANK CHECK”
Recalling that she was chosen as part of a presidential formula that won the elections in July 2021, she acknowledged that this does not imply having “a blank check”, but a commitment “to get out of the political crisis and the serious effects of the pandemic ».
He promised to “continue reactivating the country”, the nation in the world with the most deaths from covid-19, “and attend to the most urgent needs of citizens.
«I want to assure you that I have worked hard to form a ministerial cabinet for unity and democratic consolidation that is up to what the country requires. A government that works for economic reactivation and social justice, and guides us along the path of progress, “he stressed.
Finally, he assured that “the Government of national unity will be for all Peruvians” and maintained that he will maintain the “dialogue” for the “concretization of economic growth and social cohesion.”
