With their votes they supported him to be elected president of the Congress of the Republic in July of last year and with their endorsement he arrived at the Government Palace by constitutional succession to replace the vacant Dina Boluarte.
Today, the groups of Fuerza Popular of Keiko Fujimori, Alliance for Progress of César Acuña and Podemos Perú of José Luna Gálvez, once again give their support to José Jerí and they keep him in the Government Palace despite serious questions about his clandestine and suspicious meetings with Chinese businessmen.
These are the majority blocs in Parliament. Fujimorismo with 20 members, Acuñismo with 17 and Podemos with 11, which adds up to a total of 48 votes that undoubtedly make the difference when voting on a motion of censure, vacancy or eventually requesting an extraordinary plenary session to discuss the controversial actions of the president.
So far, neither the dissemination of the videos that show the visit of a hooded Jerí to the chifa of businessman Zhihua Yang, at night and outside the official agenda; nor the report of the visits of the investigated Ji Wu Xiaodong to the Government Palace, nor the revelation of Peru21 on the Indecopi intervention – presumably at Jerí’s request – to favor Yang’s business have been enough for Fuerza Popular to establish a firm position of rejection against the suspicious behavior of the head of state.
APP, for its part, only issued a statement asking for his resignation, while Podemos washed its hands of it and blamed the other groups for the permanence of its Somos Perú colleague in the Palace.
The truth is that none of these groups, nor those of Avanza País and Renovación Popular – although the latter has requested an extraordinary plenary session – has signed any of the three motions of censure presented against Jerí in his capacity as head of Congress. Fewer intend to endorse the vacancy motion promoted by Perú Libre and which is still in the process of collecting signatures.
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