the congresswoman flower paul maintains that the crisis in the country It is the responsibility of the Executive and the Legislative. The way out he proposes is the resignation of President Castillo, an organized democratic succession and new general elections with other rules. For it, the agenda of this legislature must be marked by political reform.
You have pointed out that President Castillo has not been able to find his way in terms of public policies and that Congress has had a destabilizing and vacant vocation. So everyone must go.
I think there are different levels of responsibility, but in conclusion we are all responsible. If the responsibility of the Executive is to conduct government policies, solve people’s problems, then I think it has failed with bad appointments, with alliances, with the distribution of public posts. But it is also the responsibility of the Legislature from the extreme right with Fuerza Popular and Renovación Popular, who have pronounced the words fraud and vacancy. To this has been added a right wing making alliances with the government party to counter-reforms in the case of education and transportation. It must also be said that the other parties have had a series of privileges, votes, positions in the State.
They should all go and hold new general elections.
If we cannot solve the problems of the people, we are in these confrontations between the vacancy and the closing of Congress, we need to propose a way out. The way out that I have proposed, which is in correspondence with the approach of the Purple Partyis that the president resigns. The National Agreement must require the president to step aside, that there may be a democratic succession, that there may be new rules.
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Constitutional reform?
you have to make one Constitutional reform in the electoral political issue in this legislature, give legitimacy to those modifications in a referendum, hopefully in november we have municipal and regional elections. And may the resignation come with reform, with democratic succession and with new elections. Here it is: we’re all leaving. I include myself because It’s not about our charges, It is about making the country viable, giving it stability to serve the people who are hungry today.
When would the general elections take place?
It should be next year. This year we should approve in this legislature the political reform. We have some central points. One is that when there is a vacancy and the Congress closes, there is an immediate call for elections. the other is moral incapacity, which is limited to mental or physical incapacity accredited by an autonomous medical board. We open the possibility of trial and impeachment, which now we do not have in our Constitution. That the Prosecutor’s Office can accuse the president of organized crime, crimes against humanity and other crimes of function. Likewise, that Congress has the possibility of making a constitutional accusation when there is an infraction of the Constitution.
You also appeal to citizen participation.
There must be citizen participation. What Congress can decide is not enough, precisely because of the lack of credibility that Congress has. That there be a referendum in November and that elections can be called the following year, between April and May, to have a new government, a new Congress, in July of the following year. This is not going to happen just because the parties agree, it also requires citizen pressure, mobilizations.
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Would we have a different Congress afterwards?
As part of these modifications, we are proposing that political or financial leaders should not be characters with sentences. The creation of a new constituency, just as there is the electoral constituency of Peruvians abroad, that there be a constituency of indigenous peoples because the number of conflicts we have in our communities is due to the little representation they have on the political scene.
Political reform should be insisted on in this legislature, then.
Totally. The main agenda of this legislature must be marked with political reform and support for reforms that allow people’s lives to improve.
The president of the Congress, María del Carmen Alva, affirmed that in the Legislative “no one entrenches their seat”. Photo: Congress.
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The historian Daniel Parodi maintains that the country lacks a political class and that what exists are electoral clubs and patronage networks. Do you see it that way too?
Yes. All this problem goes through the political parties with a great weakening, and that is where the representation comes from. Just as we weaken reforms in education and transportation, we weaken political reforms, and the one who makes those changes is the majority in Congress. There are political groups that enter with an agenda. Certain groups benefit from the lack of institutionality of the parties, a weakening of the State is convenient for their purposes. There are valuable people in Congress and surely in the Government, but not enough in number to move votes and decisions.
Preparing the stage for the new elections means that the legislature is going to have to pick up the pace.
We have already talked with some party leaders about the need to put together a common agenda on political reform. Inside Congress there is talk of all of us leaving. The president of the Congress has said it, we are not clinging to the position. There is already awareness of the need to find a way out of this political crisis. I think it’s a matter of coming to an agreement, we don’t have much time, but also that citizen mobilization and the voice of Peruvians remain active to exert a pressure mechanism.
