The National Executive Committee (CEN) of the political party We are Peru (SP) met this Wednesday to analyze the situation of the president José Jerí and the complaints against him for his clandestine meetings with Chinese businessmen, and agreed to support the investigations carried out in this regard both at the level of the Public Ministry and the Congress of the Republic.
Guillermo Aliaga, political spokesperson for the group, informed Peru21 that the president of the group Patricia Li participated in the meeting, who, with the other members of the CEN – he said – concluded that the president, who is a suspended member of the party, must “continue giving the explanations (of the case) as he has been doing at the fiscal headquarters and at the congressional headquarters so that it can be elucidated if there is some type of political responsibility or another.”
Asked about the convenience of Jerí, under the protection of his constitutional powers, convening an extraordinary plenary session to respond to the questions, Aliaga responded that “there are instances to review each case.”
“There is an Oversight Commission precisely to be able to look at alleged acts that could have some type of irregularity. I think the correct thing is for it to be presented to the initial instance, which is the commission, as it did on Wednesday,” he noted.
Regarding party responsibility for Jerí’s actions, the political spokesperson for Somos Perú specified that “the actions of the President of the Republic occur within the framework of his autonomy.”
“Somos Perú cannot say that it is responsible because Mr. Jerí goes to one place or another because he is not our active militant. However, we do hope that this situation can be clarified in the shortest possible time because in any case it affects governability, especially if we are in an electoral period.”
In that context, he added that “there is a political sector that wants to take political advantage from a situation not politically generated by Somos Perú.” “We don’t endorse that,” he said.
“The president is a militant on suspension, on leave at his own request, and this did not happen on the same day that the events in the investigation took place but rather the day after he assumed the presidency of the republic. The party cannot have any type of control today over Mr. Jeri, partisan speaking. I consider that he, politically, understands that the situation has generated a crisis and has all the tools, I hope, to be able to show whether or not there has been some degree of responsibility,” he added.
“The last time he faced a fairly serious complaint, which is the one that has a connotation of sexual freedom, he knew how to face it and prove his innocence before the judicial authorities. I think that (now) he can be much more thorough in elucidating this, especially when he gives his explanation,” he continued.
Aliaga acknowledged that the president’s first statements about his meetings with Chinese businessmen “left me a little confused,” but he considered that in his presentation at the Oversight Commission “he gave much more information.” However, he warned that the population “is looking for other types of answers that are clearer and more extensive than the first two versions he gave at the beginning.”
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