Former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori announced that her party, Popular Force, will sign the motion of censure against Pedro Castillo, with which the right wing seeks to seal his dismissal.
The measure was announced by the third vice president of Congress, Patricia Chirinos, to destablish it for “permanent moral incapacity”, the same cause that at the time they applied against the ex-president Martín Vizcarra.
“At Fuerza Popular we believe that this government has been showing a permanent inability to lead the country. For this reason, the Popular Force bench has decided to sign the motion for presidential vacancy”Fujimori wrote on Twitter.
The daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who lost last June in the second round of elections against Castillo, added that “there are moments where the political groups must define their positions, beyond the speeches, in the facts ”.
“The future of the country should not be subjected to political calculations, or votes. It is about principles and convictions ”, he declared.
Shortly afterwards, the Popular Force congressmen issued a statement in which they reaffirmed the position of their leader, considering a “moral obligation” to support the presidential impeachment request given “the misgovernment” in which the country finds itself.
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Pressure from the right of Peru
With these pronouncements, Fujimori’s party becomes the third political group to show its support for the impeachment request President Chirinos, from the right-wing formation Avanza País, showed on Thursday.
The motion also has the support of the far-right Popular Renovation party, whose leader, Rafael López, was the first to raise the issue last Wednesday in a television interview in which he crossed out the Castillo government as “stupid” and said that his dismissal and that of his vice president, Dina Boluarte, were to take place “before the end of the year.”
The parliamentarians of Country Advances, Popular Force and Popular Renewal they would add a total of 43 votes in the Peruvian Parliament, a figure that would far exceed the 26 required to formally present the motion, but would not be enough for admission to debate (52) and less for approval (87).
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Removal of Pedro Castillo, an idea with little support
For the rest of the benches and the Government itself, the impeachment proposal was received with surprise and they remarked that a measure of this type will only generate more instability political and economic in your country.
In fact, Chirinos showed his request just one day after the president of Congress, María del Carmen Alva, assured that the Legislative, dominated by the opposition, had not planned promote a request for a presidential vacancy against Castillo, who assumed the presidency on July 28.
Therefore, after learning about the promotion of this initiative, the Prime Minister, Mirtha Vásquez, sent a letter to the President of Parliament to express her “surprise and concern” and urge her to mark “distance from this type of attacks against governanced ”, which may“ represent attacks against the popular will and therefore against democracy ”of the country.
Vásquez insisted that, “in the midst of the deep crisis that affects the majority of Peruvians, it is essential to have minimum conditions of stability to be able to address the main problems, which implies a mutual collaboration between powers of the State.”
Less direct was President Castillo, who, without explicitly mentioning the impeachment requests, affirmed the day before before the Annual Conference of Executives (CADE) that “governance is built between everyone, not just on one side.”
“It is built putting the interests of the country first, without obstacles, without restrictions, without infundies and without breaking the balance of powers. The useless confrontation has done a lot of damage to the country and has only generated frustration and mistrust in citizens, politicians and institutions ”, emphasized the president.
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