From Avanza País and Renovación Popular they differ from the position of Fuerza Popular, and even attack Fujimori Hernando Guerra García for proposing early elections for December of this year.
The congressman’s announcement people force and president of the Congressional Constitution Commission, Hernando Guerra Garciaon reconsideration for an early general election in December 2023 and not by April 2024, was not well received by his —until now— fellow allies of Advance Country Y popular renewal. The fujimorista raised this initiative before the impossibility that the constitutional reforms surpass the 87 votes in the plenary session of the Congress.
“If you want elections in 2023, President, I am currently proposing a reconsideration of the vote that was proposed for the 2024 elections. (…) I ask that a substitute text be made so that elections are held in 2023 and so that let the double standards and double speech go,” said Guerra García in the session this Thursday 26.
Country advances against early elections in 2023
The first congressman from Avanza País to express his dissatisfaction was Alejandro Caverowho accused of “irresponsible” and “double standards” Hernando Guerra. He alleged that he acted as a member of a political party and not as president of the Constitution Commission. This is due to the statement of the National Executive Committee of people force calling on Congress to cut the term by December 2023.
“It seems to me a giant double standard, on the one hand, to say that they always wanted 2023, but, on the other hand, to say that the reforms must be approved. Here they are throwing the reforms away and they are sabotaging the only real possibility of approve reforms saying as always that those who are sabotaging are those at the front (leftist benches), that they do sabotage a lot, but here they are self-sabotaging,” said Cavero Alva.
The comments did not go down well with Fujimorism. Even the congresswoman Tania Ramirez approached the bench Alejandro Cavero to rebuke him.
Tania Ramírez rebukes Alejandro Cavero.
Norma Yarrow would pronounce on Twitter: “Popular Force, in an irresponsible way, without measuring the consequences, reconsiders the advancement of elections to 2023 without reforms. Is it a political calculation or partisan appetite? Let’s be a little more responsible with our country” .
The spokeswoman for the train bench would do the same, Adriana Tudelawho stated that the Fuerza Popular movement “plays the left’s game” and “delivers the country to chaos and violence.” “If Fuerza Popular believes that proposing elections again in 2023 puts the left on the ropes, they are seriously mistaken,” he said.
Adriana Tudela’s tweet about the Fuerza Popular initiative.
In Popular Renewal they cling to their seats
In the plenary session, the Popular Renewal spokesperson, Jorge Montoyareiterated that his bench is against any advancement of elections: “Our Constitution sets the path that we must follow. Presidential elections can be held whenever you want. Whenever you want, it means when the president resigns or when she is vacated, but not elections congressmen. That represents modifying the magna carta and treating it as a sheet of scratch paper.”
Montoya also affirmed that an early election would not reduce the protests in Lima and regions, despite the fact that the reduction of the mandate is one of the citizen demands. He alleges that the protests seek “the seizure of power by force.”
The bench in full would sign a statement in which it describes the aforementioned reform proposal as “an unconstitutional political solution” that only benefits “the enemies of democracy.” In this statement they also express their support for the Government of Dina Boluarte and maintain that “the future of 33 million Peruvians cannot be affected by a small number of people who have been protesting violently.”
“The measure to advance elections is so arbitrary that it includes the Andean Parliament, which does not depend on the situation or internal political crisis of its member states, therefore, it contravenes various international conventions signed by the Peruvian State, such as the Cartagena Agreement, that we are obligated to respect and comply with,” the statement read.
