No more delays. The political spokesperson for the Somos Perú (SP) party, Guillermo Aliaga, stated that the President of the Republic, José Jeríshould no longer delay the announcement of the security plan to combat citizen insecurity and should not delay the publication of the balance sheet with figures from the declaration of the state of emergency in Lima and Callao.
“I absolutely believe that the president already has to say what new measures he is taking, because it is explained to us that there is going to be a new citizen security plan, he has promised it by the end of January, but they have to be presented as soon as possible. (…) We Peruvians need to know specifically what the Ministry of the Interior is going to do. From Somos Perú it is not that we are applauding a management that still does not show concrete figures of improvement,” he remarked in an interview with Peru21TV.
Aliaga, who is also running for the Senate for SP, maintained that upon assuming the Transition Government, Jerí received an outdated security plan that has required being updated according to the needs that exist at this time. “He has promised that before the end of the first month of the year he will present an update, a new citizen security plan that is contemplating those institutions that must have greater preponderance, as well as the president; Congress has previously granted him powers,” he commented.
However, he added that “like all Peruvians, we still do not feel satisfied with the issue of the perception of citizen insecurity.”
Warned that this is not a perception but rather concrete facts, the Somos Perú spokesperson pointed out that all that is known so far on the subject is the information from the head of the Interior, Vicente Tiburcio, who has indicated that the numbers of extortion cases have decreased.
“However, for ordinary citizens, and I include myself, the perception is that there continue to be extortions because, obviously, when we look at the newspapers, the news, we see that they continue to multiply. I am quite clear. All Peruvians know and understand that we are in a chaotic situation of citizen security, that the figures may be more encouraging according to what the Minister of the Interior has said, that does not translate so that we, at least the people of Lima, can feel safer at the time of go out into the street,” he stressed.
Disciplinary process
At another time, Guillermo Aliaga referred to the announcement by the spokesman for the SP parliamentary group, Héctor Valer, that a disciplinary process would be initiated against the president for his secret meeting with a Chinese businessman, and clarified that a similar measure at the party level is ruled out.
“Mr. Héctor Valer is the spokesperson for the bench, that is, for the ten congressmen who make up the Somos Perú bench. The person speaking to him—by express authorization of the National Executive Committee and by order of the party presidency—is the spokesperson for the political organization and internally there is no type of disciplinary measure being taken against the militant Jerí who is on leave, that is not being contemplated,” he reported.
Regarding the claims of Valer, who pointed out, days ago, that President José Jerí does not meet with the caucus or receive its members, Aliaga maintained that the head of state requested a temporary party license to exercise “independently the presidency of the Republic.”
“In that line, the party put all our cadres at their disposal to move Peru forward, that is what we have done; we do not have any type of claim because we know that this is a temporary presidency, which is not born from the mandate of the ballot box, but from a constitutional mandate,” he added.
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