The regional councilor Tatiana Arias and the councilors Lariza Rojas and Melissa Huayhua agree that Dina Boluarte, the country’s first female president, has not made the right decisions in these first weeks of her government. Each one underlines those mistakes. For Arias, Boluarte cannot say “the ball” is in the court of the Congress and wash your hands. Rojas, councilor of Huancayo, criticizes the president’s indifference to the deaths. And he says that if it’s true that there were Shining Path infiltrators, why didn’t they stop them? Finally, Melissa Huayhua indicates that if the crisis has increased, it is due to the lack of management by the president; however, she agrees that there were terrorist infiltrators in the protests.
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REGIONAL COUNCILOR TATIANA ARIAS
She has used her last ace up her sleeve: to say that she is discriminated against for being a woman. I believe that her government is not measured by whether she is a woman or not. The fact of victimizing oneself does not seem to me. She is playing the role of Pontius Pilate, says “I am an Executive, I have no responsibility” and throws the ball to Congress. If we remember the brief period of Merino’s government, two deaths were enough for the Executive and Legislative to make a decision, now we are exceeding 20 people. If she is concerned about knowing what the cause of death of the people in the protests was, she could not send it to a military court because there would be a conflict of interest.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MANAGER LARIZA ROJAS
This president does not represent us. We had the expectation that she would change what was happening, there was going to be a dialogue table, she was going to have meetings with the different representations at the national level, but unfortunately it has turned a deaf ear. What hurts the most is your indifference. The only thing the lady has done is militarize our country, so can she ask to govern with the population? Or is it that she wants to govern behind the backs of the population. I lived through the bloody era of the Aprista government, the Fujimori government, and now I am living through the authoritarianism of a left-wing government.
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PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MELISSA HUAYHUA
Very happy as a political woman that we have the first female president of Peru; however, we expected a better performance in this crisis that the country is going through. We do not share part of her decisions, especially when she does not listen to the clamor of the population. This crisis has increased due to the wrong decisions of Dina Boluarte. We believe that this government does not have legitimacy because the people are not giving it their support. We do not share the excesses so much on the part of the police forces but it must be recognized that characters linked to terrorism have infiltrated, internal chaos is being created.
