the luck of Dina Boluarte changed radically from one day to the next. On Thursday, October 9, he woke up with power in his hands, discrediting citizen demands that demanded security in the streets, but it ended without any political support, being vacated unanimously in Congress in the first minutes of Friday.
In the last few hours, no one, except for her ministers, has come out to defend her. Rather, his former allies are trying hard to distance themselves from his image, throwing responsibilities at each other that, in reality, are shared.
In that scenario, Vladimir Cerronthe fugitive leader of the Peru Libre political party, spoke out from hiding on October 10. In a message in X, he pointed out that both Fuerza Popular and Alianza Para el Progreso (APP) were “like the columns that supported Boluarte” in the Government Palace.
As is known, Boluarte overcame several vacancy attempts since he assumed power by constitutional succession, in December 2022. These were presented on April 4, 2023, March 1, 2024, April 4, 2024 and May 17, 2024. On all those occasions, Fujimori and APP voted against and, therefore, the motions were not even admitted.
The fugitive Cerrón mentioned that, in view of the proximity of the April 2026 general elections, both political groups “decided to distance themselves” from Boluarte.
“These parties, after having co-governed and shielded Boluarte on seven occasions when he requested a vacancy, were the ones that finally tilted the vote in favor of the removal of immunity (…) ending up betraying her,” he said.
A week ago, Ipsos produced the power survey for Economic Week. In it it was revealed that Dina Boluarte was the most powerful person in the country but in second place was César Acuña, president of APP and governor of La Libertad, and in third place was Keiko Fujimori, leader of Fuerza Popular.
In fact, Boluarte’s last ministerial cabinet was made up of two APP militants: César Sandoval (Ministry of Transportation and Communications) and César Vásquez (Ministry of Health). It is believed that the former Minister of the Interior and Justice, Juan José Santiváñez, very close to Boluarte, will run for public office in April 2026 also with APP.
And what does APP reply about the apparent co-government with Boluarte? His parliamentary bench responded to Cerrón in X. They replied that “it was Perú Libre who put Dina (Boluarte) in his presidential plan.”
Indeed, Dina Boluarte assumed the highest office of the country by being vice president in the presidential formula of Peru Libre headed by the dismissed Pedro Castillo. That same formula also contained Cerrón, who was excluded in December 2020 from the 2021 electoral process by the National Elections Jury (JNE). The reason? Have a final sentence from October 2019 for incompatible negotiation of the Wanka Aerodrome case, with a suspended sentence of 4 years.
Boluarte was even national treasurer of Peru Libre from June to December 2020, when she became secretary of Technical Affairs in the internal restructuring of the pencil group prior to the 2021 contest in which they emerged victorious. In January 2022, already as president, she was expelled for “betrayal of the organization.”
Before that, Boluarte was a member of Peru Libre. According to the JNE Registry of Political Organizations (ROP), it was officially affiliated on September 27, 2020.
APP, in addition, also emphasized that they supported Boluarte in Pizarro’s chair “because APP and other parties opt for stability and economic growth, not for the anarchy and chaos of 21st century socialism that today they seek to revive. Enough of cynicism!”
It is true that, in both arguments, they are not untrue. The opportunist always carries a life jacket of his own.
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