The mayor of Ocoña, Marilú Gonzales, referred to the president of Congress, Maria del Carmen Alva (Popular Action) as a “haughty and arrogant” person, after the incident in which the parliamentarian interrupted her with phrases such as “this is my house” or “change my tone” during a session in the chamber.
“He is a person with an arrogant, arrogant attitude and since we are from the province, they are discriminating against us and he wants to treat us as it is seen there, ‘you tone me down’. I have never disrespected him. Yes, I have spoken strongly.”he told Successful.
In a session in Congress with representatives of the Network of Rural and Urban Municipalities (Remurpe) this Monday, the president of Parliament interrupted to draw attention to Gonzales Porras for considering that he had disrespected his colleagues.
“Mayor, mayor, mayor, for a little while. In this meeting they are here in my house. I demand respect first. This is a conversation between congressmen, mayors, of dialogue, which I have always said that Congress is open to talk, it is not the first time. But he changes my tone, I will not allow him to be speaking that way “Álva pointed out.
The mayor of the town of Arequipa expressed her “rejection” with the derogatory tone of the words of the head of Parliament.
Criticized video shared by Alva
Gonzales also commented on what happened after the session in the Legislative Branch, when a video was recorded that María del Carmen Alva shared on social networks in which she is seen hugging the mayor of Ocaña despite the previous incident.
“He said ‘a little picture’ and he came to take a picture with us, I with another mayor who we have been talking to, and he stood in the center and hugged us to take a picture of us and then he sent two young men who stood behind of my person, they blocked my way to interview me”assured.
“I did not think that they were people from the president of Congress who came to interview me so that, later, they try to download to favor themselves by saying that I spoke something and then I spoke something else”Gonzales Porras added.