The Peruvian Congress restarted this Wednesday the debate on the advancement of the elections for this yearan attempt to calm the wave of protests calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and parliamentary renewal. The bill that will be debated in this Wednesday’s session contemplates anticipating the general elections for December 2023 and that the new authorities take office in May 2024, as read by the president of Parliament, José Williams, after the restart of the session at 11:40.
In December, Congress approved to anticipate the elections to April 2024. “The purpose of this proposal is only one: we have advanced this issue because our country is bleeding to death”, said the Fujimori parliamentarian Hernando Guerra García, from Fuerza Popular (right).
Congress suspended on Tuesday for the third time, since Friday, the session to debate and vote on the early elections, divided by the interest of the left-wing benches in conditioning their vote in exchange for a referendum to form a Constituent Assembly.
“Today Congress will make an important decision in the face of the political crisis”, Said the head of Parliament, José Williams, on Twitter. “Who should win is the vast majority of Peruvians,” he said. In a Parliament divided into more than ten political forces, in addition to independent congressmen, the right-wing benches promote the advancement of elections.
Boluarte and the right-wing Fuerza Popular party defend the early elections to appease the protests, which have caused 48 deaths since the crisis began, on December 7, with the impeachment and arrest of former leftist president Pedro Castillo, who tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree.
Parallel to the political crisis, protests continued on Wednesday in parts of the country, including downtown Lima. In the southern Andes, a region historically neglected, there were roadblocks with tires and logs on fire.
In the central Andean region of Junín, dozens of residents blocked the central highway and streets of the city of Huancayo, some 300 km from Lima. In Puno (southeast), under a light rain, dozens of peasants and transporters carried out a mobilization through the streets of Juliaca. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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