As soon as he has been in charge of the Congress for a few days and already dealt with two fronts: complaints for alleged collection of bribes and an incident of citizen repudiation.
And, in parallel, an investigation for a complaint of rape. In both cases, the brand new head of Parliament, José Jerí, claims to be innocent.
On Tuesday, in the 106th edition of the Classic Independence, at the Monterrico Racecourse, Jerí lived an uncomfortable moment. While traveling from the race track towards the stands, the whistles began to sound.
The videos do not leave space for doubt. The public booed him without regard, marking distance from a management that just starts. Was it a spontaneous or something planned reaction?
President Dina Boluarte was also invited to the traditional horse race, but did not attend. Was it saved from being piphized as Jerí?
It is not an isolated case. Three years ago, former president Pedro Castillo also suffered popular repudiation in public spaces.
On Tuesday they attended, together with Jerí, the third vice president Ilich López and the congressmen Wilson Soto, Maricarmen Alva, Rosangella Barbarán, Edgar Tello, Patricia Chirinos, Alejandro Aguinaga, Auristela Obando, Luis Cordero Jon Tay, Paul Gutiérrez and Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu.
Does the street begin to mark a position or was it just an isolated fact? We will have to see how it is in the next public spaces.
Viral video in networks shows the moment when the president of the Congress was rejected by the public at the Monterrico Racecourse.
Will they present a motion of censure or will go to ethics?
However, the discomfort had already been heating from a day before. On Monday, Peru21 He published a report with the opinions of four congressmen from different banks about the possibility of a motion of censure against the president of Congress, after the complaint of a businesswoman who linked him to the payment of bribes for a work in Cajamarca in November 2023, when he presided over the Budget Commission.
Congressmen Alejandro Cavero (Avanza País), Jorge Montoya (Honor and Democracy) and Alejandro Aguinaga (Popular Force) pointed to Peru21 That your benches will evaluate, at the time, whether or not they support an eventual motion of censure, in any group decides to activate that mechanism so that it is debated and vote in the plenary.
A journalist from América Televisión also spread the viral video on his social networks.
The incident that has turned on the alerts in the Legislative, a few days after the election of Jerí, is the complaint filed last Sunday by the Blanca Ríos businesswoman, who claims to have delivered S/150 thousand in coimas in exchange for including a work in Cajamarca in the investment plan of the Ministry of Economy that evaluated the Budget Commission chaired by Jerí.
In parallel, Congressman Roberto Chiabra stated that the case first passes through the Ethics Commission.
“You should wait for it to be ethically and demand that the president of the congress attend and present their discharges. If their explanations do not convince, then raise censorship,” he said.
For now, Jerí’s fate would be in the hands of his colleagues.
And as we have said before, in Congress sometimes weighs the strength of the votes more than the forcefulness of the evidence.
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