Misrule. Dina Boluarte had announced a project for the Constitution Commission of the next Parliament draft a new Magna Carta. Otárola did not support the president yesterday by pointing out that the proposal was not approved in the Minister council.
Dina Boluarte had announced last Sunday that it was going to process “immediately” two reform projects, one to ensure the development of general elections this year and another to entrust to the future Constitution Commission drafting a new Magna Carta. Well, yesterday the Council of Ministers met and none of these proposals has been approved.
Moreover, the head of the ministerial cabinet of the present regime, Alberto Otárolawent out to the patio of Palace to testify before the media and was in charge of underlining, publicly, that the proposed drafting of the new Constitution had not been approved formally in the Minister councilleaving the president without a floor.
second wave
It is not the first time that Dina Boluarte develops the idea of the project for the elections in October of this 2023 and it falls for lack of authority within the Council of Ministers.
Last week, it was she who asked the Minister of Justice, José Tello, writing a project. The text was formulated as a draft by the technical team of said ministry and Tello took the document to the Palace on Wednesday.
There was a session of Minister council and the subject of the project was not formally included in the agenda. On the fly the issue was dismissed. An Executive source reported that there was no consensus in the cabinet. Alberto Otárola attended the Congress and met with the Board of Directors. upon his departure, issued a general message of support for the late elections, for April 2024.
Dina Boluarte later acknowledged that the issue had been addressed by the Executive.
Sunday is a second rock. The president tried to give a firm message to Congress and issued an ultimatum to speed up the approval of the general elections for this 2023.
And he said this: “If the consensus does not prosper tomorrow (yesterday, Monday), to discuss the advancement of elections to 2023, The Executive will immediately be presenting two urgent legislative initiatives: the first (to) debate a constitutional reform so that the general elections are, inevitably, this year 2023, the first round in October and the second, if applicable, in December”.
However, sources from the same Executive branch informed this newsroom that, in yesterday’s Council of Ministers section, did not move forward with the approval of this first proposal, Despite clear indecisions in the Congress.
Dina Boluarte and the PCM disagree with the project to advance the elections presented over the weekend. Photo: diffusion
discarded project
If the reform proposal for the early elections it was not approved, there are fewer options to approve the project on the order to the new group of Constitution for the total reform of the Magna Carta.
It was at this point that Otárola came out yesterday to give a public message, with the emphasis that it was not approved by the Executive.
“In relation to the second project, referring to the reform of the Constitution (…), this idea is still being debated and has not yet been formally approved by the Council of Ministers, because it is being fed back by all the ministers of state”, express.
A version from the environment of the Executive is that there is a greater distance between Boluarte and Otárola, situation that would explain the lack of coordination in the messages.
After the facts, in the Palace now they expect Congress to approve this Tuesday the advancement of elections for October and, In this way, they think that the second project announced on the total reform of the Constitution will be forgotten.
Otárola’s message would have been addressed to the right-wing benches that immediately came out against any option to change the Constitution approved after the coup of Fujimori and Montesinos.
It is likely that there is a distance between the PCM and Boluarte. Photo: diffusion
130 organizations demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte
Through a public statement, 130 civil society organizations in the country demanded the immediate resignation of Dina Boluarte and the prompt calling of general elections.
The document is signed by organizations such as Flora Tristán, Arariwa, the Amazon Center for Anthropology and Practical Application (CAAAP), the Bartolomé de las Casas Center in Cusco, the Loyola Center in Ayacucho, SER, among others.
The signatories reject the authoritarian and violent actions of the present regime of Boluarte and Otárola, situation that has generated 58 deaths, 47 of them as a direct result of extrajudicial executions.
Organizations too express their condemnation of the violent groups that generated vandalism and demand the National Police fulfill their investigative role to identify those responsible.
