Breaking of alliances. Through his Twitter account, the secretary general of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, published a statement in which the political group asked President Pedro Castillo to resign from the partisan militancy that brought him to power in June 2021.
This announcement represents a new chapter in the tensions that had arisen in recent months between Cerrón and Castillo due to discrepancies between the two men due to the policies given by the Government and the appointment of officials in different Executive portfolios.
According to what is described in the statement shared by the perulibrista leader, the decision would have been taken unanimously by the party, the political commission and the ruling party, considering that the behavior of the current president would have gone against the group bylaws.
“The CEN, the Free Peru Bank and the Political Commission of the Free Peru Party, after having statutorily evaluated the behavior of the militant José Pedro Castillo Terrones, registered on September 30, 2020, extend the invitation to his irrevocable resignation, considering his current investiture of Constitutional President of the Republic, before initiating a disciplinary administrative process in accordance with article 37 of the Party Statute”, is indicated in the first part of the announcement of the cerronista bloc.
Why does Peru Libre ask Pedro Castillo to resign from his militancy? According to the version given by the party led by Vladimir Cerrón, the reason is none other than the constant breakdowns suffered by what was considered to be the government caucus, which, at the beginning of Castillo’s presidency, had the parliamentary majority as it was composed of 37 legislators, a number that has been reduced over time.
In the opinion of the members of the pencil party, the responsibility for the debacle suffered in the Hemicycle falls directly on the figure of Castillo, whom they point out as having “invited” dissidence within the caucus, as well as promoting the ” registration of two parallel political parties” within Peru Libre, in reference to the divisions that arose in Congress as a result of the differences in this parliamentary group: Democratic Peru and the Magisterial Bloc.
