Various organizations called a March on Thursday, February 17 and Friday, February 18 support the closure of Congress and support President Pedro Castillo. Although they were small in number, they had delegations from different provinces being the most numerous are the groups of Huancavelica, Puno and Cusco, according to the information spread on Twitter.
On both YouTube and TikTok, material can be found that reflects attendance similar in quantity to the shows of support for the work of Sunedu two weeks ago and more diverse in terms of their origin.
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“It is striking that there is no coverage by the mass or alternative media,” questions the user Omar Coronel (@ocoronelc), who spread this citizen demand via the aforementioned social network.
The delegations showed their support for President Pedro Castillo and rejection of the current Congress. Photo: diffusion
Likewise, the publications show that, in addition to requesting the dissolution of Congress, Some of the organizations ask in a general way to “eliminate the right”. Groups such as “Popular Ágora and Rímac Llaqta have become increasingly violent in their actions and speeches,” warns the thread on Twitter.
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It seems that the polarization inherited from the second electoral round in 2021, They make a “massive mobilization” difficult, both for the sectors of the left that defend Castillo and for the right-wing groups that are after the presidential vacancy since July.
This is why Coronel, the author of the tweets, indicates that you have to know the groups that manage to organize, “in particular, those that have authoritarian speeches and violent practices”, highlights.
According to the publication, in addition to provincial delegations, the ruling party Peru Libre and the already mentioned Ágora Popular and Rímac Llaqta, reservists, Alfa y Omega, the national organization of Armed Forces graduates, marched. AA. and the Political Support Front.
