“López Obrador cannot make a unilateral decision regarding the transfer of the pro tempore Presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru,” defended the opposition party.
He also recalled that the spirit of the Alliance, made up of Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia, “is that of economic integration, political articulation and cooperation” and that the Framework Agreement that governs the group details the deadlines and the procedure through which López Obrador should hand over the presidency to Boluarte.
“I am going to instruct the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) to notify the members of the Rio Group what we are doing, because I do not want to hand over (the presidency) to a government that I consider spurious. Let the members of the group decide,” López Obrador said this Friday at his daily press conference.
Once the opinion of the Rio Group, a permanent consultation mechanism made up of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, has been obtained, López Obrador indicated that he will abide by the corresponding decision.
López Obrador was to hand over the pro tempore presidency to Lima last November at the Pacific Alliance Summit, which was suspended after the Peruvian Congress prohibited its president from leaving the country.
The meeting was postponed to December and transferred to Lima, but Castillo was dismissed after attempting a self-coup and has been in prison ever since.
Since then, the Mexican president has expressed his support for Castillo, granting asylum to his wife and children and denouncing that he was the victim of a coup against him orchestrated by the oligarchy.
“We remind López Obrador that the Government of Dina Boluarte in Peru came into office in accordance with what its Constitution dictates and that it was Pedro Castillo who tried to carry out a coup, we demand that he stop intervening in the internal affairs of this country”, concluded PAN deputy Mariana Gómez del Campo.
