The congresswoman Norma Yarrowwho was touted as a candidate for the Board of Directors by Popular Renewal, He pointed out that his party tried to get closer to the self-proclaimed Democratic Bloc to negotiate a place on the list now led by Eduardo Salhuana (Alliance for Progress), but they were not taken into account by the political forces that make up this alliance.
“During the first two years, the Democratic Bloc worked in an orderly fashion and we did so with the same idea, which was to defend democracy and Parliament. It is clear that this bloc has already dismantled itself, and Popular Renewal was not considered part of this negotiation, which is why we decided to become part of a responsible opposition,” he told the press.
In this line, Norma Yarrow He denounced that there is a co-government between this block of benches and the Government of the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte: “There is a joint government, I think that here not only are ministries being taken over, now the presidency of the Board of Directors is also being taken over by Eduardo Salhuana, a person who is highly questioned on the issue of illegal mining, a problem that is affecting the country.”
Eduardo Salhuana would replace Alejandro Soto
With one hour left until the deadline for registration of candidate lists for the Election of the new Board of Directors for 2024-2025the alliance led by Alianza para el Progreso and Fuerza Popular officially announced Eduardo Salhuana as its option for the presidency of the Congress of the Republic, replacing Alejandro Soto Reyes. He would be accompanied in the first vice presidency by the Fujimorist Patricia Juárez.
The list is completed by Waldemar Cerronwho represents the left quota on this list predominantly made up of right-wing benches. With this, Peru Libre would seek to retain the second vice presidency of Congress. For its part, Avanza País is doing the same with Alejandro Cavero for the third vice presidency, a position currently held by his colleague from the bench Rosselli Auruz.
List 2 is made up entirely of congressmen from the Socialist bench, which proposes Silvana Robles as president and as vice-presidents Pasión Dávila (first), Jaime Quito (second) and Alex Flores (third). They asked for the vote of the left-wing parliamentarians from other parliamentary groups.
Faced with this scenario, Norma Yarrow announced that she will vote blank during the election of the members of the Board of Directors 2024-2025to be held this Friday 28th. He will not vote for the left-wing list: “We are talking about extremes. They have the right to have a bench, but they are at the extreme of what we defend. I am a right-wing person and I will never support list 2.”
