He journalist Cesar Hildebrandt commented on the presidential speech of July 28, highlighting its unnecessary length. He also highlighted the anecdotal presence of the brother of the head of state, Nicanor Boluarte, and the foreign minister Javier González-Olaechea, who fell asleep in the middle of Dina Boluarte’s message.
“The lady who frequents the Government Palace went to the seat of the one who has the power, that is, Congress, and spoke for five hours. She wanted to impress us, but all she managed to do was bore us. Her speech put her brother Nicanor and the one who now serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs to sleep. They both snored to their heart’s content. Others, those who could, fled,” Hildebrandt said during the broadcast of her latest podcast.
The journalist also criticized the structure and content of the message to the nation. “It was a 79-page message. Someone told the president that if she tormented us with her voice and the prose of her secretaries, she would demonstrate productivity, leadership, and control of the political scene. Someone should have told her, lady, they say you don’t govern, prove that you don’t. It was five hours of pure and hard demagogy. In addition, it was another escape from accountability,” he said.
Dina Boluarte’s message to the nation: these were the reactions
Starting with the congressmen, many of them questioned the need for so much time to issue confusing messages with misleading figures. “It’s five hours wasted all over the country. Five hours of listening to things that mean absolutely nothing. A page with a single line saying that he was resigning was enough,” said the president. Parliamentarian Jaime Quito to The Republic.
Meanwhile, legislator Pasión Dávila rejected the presence of the president’s brother, Nicanor Boluarte, in the chamber. “It is regrettable. She should be ashamed. She still wants to provoke people. We do not share that,” he told this newspaper.
For her part, the congresswoman Flower Paul He expressed his rejection by leaving the chamber during the presidential speech. She was the first of many parliamentarians who decided to leave.“I cannot conscience enough to remain in the plenary session listening to the President, seeing so much hypocrisy and hearing so many lies. I sang our national anthem and left,” the parliamentarian expressed on her social networks.
Roberto Sanchez Palominofrom the Democratic Change – Together for Peru bench, also left the chamber, just President Dina Boluarte began her message to the nationThe congressman walked past the cabinet on his way out of the legislature. “I withdraw from your presidential message full of lies and mockery of common sense (…) Justice for our murdered brothers from the South!” he posted on his X account, formerly Twitter.
Along the same lines, experts in the political situation have spoken out on the matter. “This has been, and I tell you this with all sincerity, a lack of respect for Peru. Five hours of a message is ridiculous, if not absurd. The idea of a message is to be heard. The idea of reporting to the country what you have done implies having a strategy to be heard. Five hours is an absolute lack of respect. Those who planned this knew perfectly well that it would end after 4 in the afternoon. What it shows is that she does not want to be heard or that she wants to give the impression of a working woman,” the lawyer stressed. Rosa Maria Palacios.
