The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, announced that she will meet with the Constitution Commission of Congress to seek to “shorten the deadlines” for the holding of general elections in her country, which a few days ago proposed that they be brought forward to April 2024.
The President of Peru, In Boluarte, considered this Tuesday that his predecessor in office, Peter Castillo, dismissed and detained after the failed self-coup, has been manipulated to brand it as “usupardora”.
“I know the president, we have talked several times, many times we have hugged and cried, I don’t think these words that are appearing on (Castillo’s) Twitter are not (his),” he said.
“They are using it, they continue to manipulate it”, Boluarte said in a statement to the press.
“I don’t know why my Apurimeño brothers rise up against me. I call my brothers from the seven provinces of Apurimac, from the central jungle, from Arequipa, Tacna, Moquegua, Piura, please calm down, calm down,” he also asked.
After this, the head of state maintained that hers is “a transitional government” who presides with the objective of “call for calm” in his country.
Given the requests made by a sector of the citizenry to close the Congress, Boluarte recalled that Castillo was dismissed and sent to prison precisely for trying to apply such a measure.
“They say that Congress can be closed, legally it is a difficult situation, for the same reason that the president (Castillo) wanted to close Congress. Now look where he is.” pondered.
Dina Boluarte and the project to advance elections
The Government of Peru formalized this Monday before Congress a bill that proposes the advancement of the general elections in the country to April 2024.
It is a project that was delivered with the signatures of President Boluarte and her Prime Minister, Pedro Angulo.
The norm, which was already announced by the ruler after midnight this Monday, proposes a constitutional reform, which modifies the mandate of the President of the Republic.
To this are added those of the congressmen and representatives before the Andean Parliament, and establishes the advancement of general elections for the year 2024.
The project details that the proposal for the elections to be held in April 2024 is “linked to the closure of the electoral roll.”
In addition, it must be carried out one year before, the same deadline in which the laws establish to make legal reforms.
Finally, it was indicated that this term “should also serve to approve, if applicable, the constitutional reforms referring to the Peruvian political regime.”
In addition, it was pointed out that “It is urgent to make democratic and constitutional changes in Congress, fundamentally obeying the sentiment of the citizenry.”