This Tuesday, March 8, starting at 4:00 pm, the Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, will go to the Congress of the Republic together with the members of his ministerial cabinet to request the confidence of the parliamentarians. Although the opposition benches such as Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular, Avanza País have shown their radical position against, and those of Perú Libre, Podemos Perú, Somos Perú, Perú Democrático their support, there are benches that have not yet determined to which side they will lean. .
This is the situation of the parliamentary groups of Popular Action, Alliance for Progress and Together for Perusince in the case of the first two they have a significant number of congressmen who could define the green light for the Torres cabinet.
“Basically, who is going to define (the vote of confidence) is Acción Popular and as far as we know now there is a group of them that is linked to these tenders that are managed in the MTC. We have to wait a bit to be able to see exactly which are the political operators that favor this line of negotiation that is being carried out in this Ministry, ”said political analyst Marylia Cruz in an interview with La República.
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Meanwhile, Alejandro Mejía commented: “We must bear in mind that tomorrow (today Tuesday the 8th) it is precisely these congressmen, we are going to call them the wild card matcheswho are accommodating according to the circumstances, such as are Acción Popular and Alianza por el Progreso, which somehow define themselves”.
In Together for Peru, those who have stated that they will vote in favor of the investiture are the Minister of Tourism and Foreign Trade, Roberto Sánchez, as well as the congresswoman and alternate spokesperson Isabel Cortez. She indicated that the permanence of the Minister of Health, Hernán Condori, and of Transportation, Nicolás Bustamante, is not a definitive element to not support the PCM..
This thought is not shared by the Alianza para el Progreso bench, since its spokesman, Eduardo Salhuana, He said that the majority disagreed with Condori continuing in Salud, as well as the unsuitable replacement for the command of the MTC.
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Divided opinions in Acción Popular
Acción Popular has divided opinions given that some plan to support the Executive, but others do not, due to the latest complaints linking the bench with alleged mafias in the Government.
“If we give confidence, they will say that it is one more example of collusion (…) Now this situation occurs. We should vote against confidence, ”explained the alternate spokesperson for him, Joseph Arriola.
