Evasive. This is how the prime minister showed himself yesterday Alberto Otárola when the press asked him what will happen if, as everything suggests, the Congress of the republic does not approve the advancement of general elections for this year. will they stay Dina Boluartehe and the entire Executive until 2026?
“The Government’s agenda is expressed in two bills that are in Congress and the Government will and does monitor daily and attentive to the decisions it makes,” was his brief response. Previously, she recalled that the Executive has timely sent two initiatives to Parliament to anticipate the general elections.
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He added that Parliament has debated them extensively and added that although some decisions adopted have been shared by the Executive, the same has not happened in other cases. “Meanwhile, we have always said that we are not going to govern on automatic pilot and we are going to make the decisions that the country requires to achieve economic stability and social peace and to implement the powerful Punche Peru program, which is an injection of 6 billion to the economy and that seeks to generate 120,000 jobs in 2023,” he stressed.
His lack of a concrete response on what the Executive will do if the elections are not brought forward would confirm what sources of Peru21 They pointed out days ago: that the government of Dina Boluarte does not seem to have a real interest in the issue to such an extent that it has not addressed it on its own initiative in its meetings with political leaders. Otárola himself implicitly ratified it by maintaining that “the purpose of the call is to listen to the parties (…) and to all the organizations that have something to say about the future and governability of the country.” And the advance?
In the Legislature, meanwhile, Popular Action announced that it will not support the advancement of elections for this year.
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- The premier informed that the round of dialogue will be joined by unions, civil society and representatives of regional parties, among others.
- On the position of Peru Libre to accept the dialogue if he resigns, as responsible for the deaths in the protests, he asked that the issue not be politicized.
