The general secretary of Free Peru (PL), Vladimir Cerronthreatened the entire country with violence if the constituent Assembly by peaceful means.
At a political meeting of the ruling party, held at the premises of the District Executive Committee of La Victoria (Lima) on Tuesday, May 3, the man sentenced for corruption assured his supporters that they will fulfill the promises they made from the beginning.
“We have reaffirmed since the party was founded: in Peru there will be no changes if the Political Constitution is not changed, either by a peaceful way or by a non-peaceful way, unfortunately,” said the owner of the party that led to Pedro Castillo to power by constitutional means.
Consulted by this newspaper, Congressman Alfredo Pariona of Peru Libre explained that, after Congress rejected the Constituent Assembly, the population could start demonstrations. “In my Huancavelica region, the population is going to be mobilized to tell the parliamentarians that they are not the ones who decide on this issue (Constituent Assembly). The population is finally going to decide,” he declared.
Legislator Edgar Tello (PL) agreed that “the population and the workers know that the only way is to mobilize, take to the streets, which is a democratic right.”
José María Balcazar (PL) tried to soften Cerrón’s statements by qualifying them as “political expressions that should not be taken literally”. However, a day before he indicated in Successful that “it could be” that the pencil party gets involved in mobilizations to carry out a referendum.
CLOSE THE CONGRESS?
When asked about the actions that President Pedro Castillo would take after Parliament’s refusal regarding the Constituent Assembly project, Pariona replied that he was part of “coordinations” in which it was contemplated to seek the dissolution of the current Congress of the Republic.
“Suddenly the Cabinet is renewed and, as the Constitution says, if there are two refusals (of trust to a premier), that could go (the strategy of closing Congress)”, he indicated. His bench colleague, Pasión Dávila, did not rule out this possibility and said that in politics anything can happen.
For the lawyer Lucas Ghersi, Vladimir Cerrón and his party promote a narrative of a coup to change the Constitution.
“He is a person who has no democratic conviction and will do whatever he can to destabilize and destroy the weak Peruvian democracy,” he said about the former governor of Junín.
From his perspective, Peru Libre would present the Constituent Assembly project again after July, when the composition of the Constitutional Commission, now dominated by Fujimorism, changes. To this strategy would be added a climate of destabilization promoted by the government, as well as a permanent discursive campaign to convince the population of the need to close Parliament.
Political analyst Camila Bozzo showed that Cerrón and the government have been unfolding a similar narrative, which consists of fraying spirits and exacerbating a sector of the population.
PJ IS RATIFIED
In parallel, the Judiciary ratified yesterday, in the second instance, that Cerrón continue his appearance with restrictions in the investigation that follows him for aggravated collusion, thus rejecting the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to change this measure to one of preventive detention due to non-compliance of norms.
KEEP IN MIND
- On Friday, May 6, the Constitution Commission filed the Executive’s project that proposed calling a Constituent Assembly.
- Vladimir Cerrón has a four-year sentence for corruption of officials and several open investigations.
