Gone was the iron defense of the then Vice President and Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Dina Boluarte, to the former president Pedro Castillo and to the social claim that he represented, when he said in December 2021 that he would resign if he was vacated.
And it is that the drastic political turn that Boluarte has had so far is marked by a series of events such as the fraud discourse on the electoral results, the rain of signs of corruption of the Castillo administration, the attempts of the Congress for vacating it and finally a failed coup d’état by him that led her to assume the presidency.
“I am very sorry and very sad that some ignorant voices have to be saying that compañera Dina is behind the vacancy, when compañera Dina, like compañero Pedro, we have fought to win this election. When the press and the right said that there was fraud, who has come out to defend the vote for the press if not the compañera In Boluarte (…) If the president is vacated, I’ll go with the president,” Boluarte said before a full square in Apurímac, the same one that is rising once morest her today to ask for her resignation. and following a balance of more than 50 deaths in the protests.
Remoteness
For the political analyst Gonzalo Banda, the departure or break of Dina Boluarte with Castillo and her government occurs when the Executive interprets it as denied the question of trust filed by former Prime Minister Aníbal Torres by the law that regulates the referendum and that is materialized in a Council of Ministers act that she did not sign.
“The rupture occurs in that decision of the premier to file a question of trust and it is not ratified. At that moment, she understood that the situation was going to end badly. That was consummated when Castillo attempted the failed coup d’état”, explains Banda.
For his part, the political scientist David Sulmont adds that Boluarte puts himself in profile so as not to commit himself to the figure of Castillo in the face of the accumulation of signs of corruption, increasing the possibility of being vacated and disqualified. Furthermore, he remembered that she had already been expelled from Free Peru.
“She decides to put herself in profile, not to associate her political future too much with Castillo. She makes a calculation of political survival because eventually she can assume the presidency,” Sulmont said.
Meanwhile, for the analyst Jorge Aragón, she is distancing herself because she does not have a very deep commitment to the party that brought her to power.
“She aligned herself electorally with the postulates of the party and the government for a while, but her commitment is neither old-fashioned nor deep,” said Aragón.
resignation attempt
following the failed coup on behalf of Castillo and his vacancy, Dina Boluarte assumed the presidency on December 7. A day later, before the press, she announced that she would remain in power until July 28, 2026.
The indignation in the street was not long in coming and In December of last year, the first protests calling for the advancement of general elections were registered, leaving 21 dead up to that moment. by police and military repression in the country.
According to sources close to the president, following the first deaths, In Boluarte entered into an emotional crisis and wanted to resign in two moments, but his premier Alberto Otárola he convinced her not to, arguing that if she did, they would be prosecuted.
Seeing herself isolated, she promised that she would get the support of the right-wing sector and the Armed Forces.. The same source points out that Boluarte has currently ruled out the possibility of resigning.
arm in arm with the right
Gonzalo Banda questions how instead of seeking her political capital in the rural electorate that brought her to power, she turned to the right of the Congress .
“She builds that legitimacy by relying on benches that insulted Peru Libre and Pedro Castillo and does not try to build that legitimacy with the voters who were seduced by Castillo’s vote,” he stressed.
For Banda, Boluarte has become a Manichean person by dividing society between the good guys who want peace and the unruly ones who are terrorists. “He has entered that dream field, he dreams that he is controlling everything, but it is a delusion, it is not real,” commented.
Meanwhile, for Sulmont, the president “appears as a figure of shield between the population and the right wing of Congress that supports his government and that supports his management of the social protest”. He added that his government colludes with those who lost the elections and describes resorting to repression as a government mechanism as “an enormous political weakness.”
Analyst Carlos Fernández Fontenoy has no doubt that Boluarte negotiated with the right wing of Congress to save himself from being disqualified and gain power, siding with a repudiated Congress.
“She appears as a defender of Congress, which is the most discredited institution in the country. That is a strategic mistake,” she said.
“He is weak politically. You probably think she’s doing the right thing. She is dissociated from reality ”Fernández said regarding his lack of political control over the protests.
