“Today I have presented to the National Elections Jury my irrevocable resignation from the political party Free Peru. Such a decision is due to my responsibility as president of 33 million Peruvians. I am respectful of the party and its bases built in the campaign”, tweeted the president peter castle yesterday afternoon, after the party leader, Vladimir Cerrón, publicly requested it.
Earlier, the perulibrista congresswoman Margot Palacios declared that, for the militants, Castillo’s resignation on his own initiative was preferable.
“We expected on his own initiative that the President of the Republic would present his resignation to Peru Libre, but by not having his reaction, the invitation is made following the procedures to sanction him because he has violated articles of the party’s statute,” he told RPP.
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The president’s decision was accompanied by censorship of his interior minister, Dimitri Senmache. “Censorship of Senmache is a triumph of the parliamentary center that becomes strong/necessary. Free Peru makes notice about his ability to harm Castillo. President keeps 25% of Congress, weakened and without a party. The Government is a clear minority, ”wrote political scientist Juan De la Puente on his social networks.
Castillo’s last letter to count on the votes of Peru Libre in the face of a possible vacancy will be that of the ministerial portfolios. According to congresswoman Palacios, Castillo would have offered ministries to several congressmen from the caucus, in exchange for these move away from Peru Libre and support it from another bench.
Castillo and Cerrón hand in hand, riding a horse in Plaza Dos de Mayo in April 2021 for the presidential campaign. Photo: The Republic
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“He is the promoter of splitting the ruling party”, assured the congresswoman. Kelly Portalatino, Jaime Quito, Milagros Riva and Américo Gonza would be the congressmen who received the president’s invitation.
Faced with the possibility that the former government party becomes part of the opposition, Vladimir Cerrón declared through his social networks: “Perú Libre is not an opposition, it will always be on the side of the people with its firm objectives. The people are the benchmark to know which side we are on, not the president.”
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Opposition distrusts everything
For opposition congressmen, Castillo’s resignation from Peru Libre is nothing more than a smoke screen. “I think that the position of separating the president from the party is a radical position that definitively destabilizes the ruling party. But since that has been breaking up for a few weeks, perhaps it is part of a strategy to confuse and get us out of the main focus, which is the fight against corruption,” suggested the congressman from Popular Renovation. George Montoya.
congressman Jose Cueto described as “montage” the quarrels between the president and the leader of Peru Libre.
