Demonstrations and riots rock the country as thousands of citizens remain in the streets demanding the resignation of interim president Dina Bolluarte.
Peru’s parliament on Monday adjourned to Tuesday a session to discuss a draft law that would call for early elections, as part of the government’s bid to end the protests and riots that have rocked the country as thousands of people remain in the streets demanding the resignation of interim president Dina Boluarte.
“By decision of the president of the parliament (…) the plenary session will continue on Tuesday, January 31 at 11:00” (local time; at 18:00 Greek time), says a statement from the Congress, after processes that lasted seven and a half hours, seeking consent.
The vote to speed up the elections to be held in October 2023, which has many in Peru in suspense, is intended to provide an institutional solution to the serious political and social crisis the country is experiencing after the suspension, arrest and pre-trial detention of December 7 of left-wing former president Pedro Castillo, who was accused of attempting a “coup” by announcing he would dissolve Congress as he prepared to remove him from power.
His then-Vice President Dina Boluarte, who took over, faced massive protests from her first days in office, especially in Andean regions in the south of the country, home to poor and historically neglected populations, who supported Mr. Castillo, in whose electoral victory they saw something like revenge for the contempt and racism of the elites of the capital, especially towards the indigenous people.
In a speech on Sunday, Ms. Boluarte stepped up pressure on parliament, demanding that it speed up elections and warning that if it did not, she would table a new constitutional revision bill to hold early elections, which would also stipulate that the next elected Congress will be required to oversee the “complete revision” of Peru’s Constitution, ratified in 1993.
“Vote for Peru, for the country, speeding up the elections in 2023 and let’s say to all of Peru with the greatest responsibility that we will all leave,” she said addressing the members of Congress.
The political and social crisis of the past seven weeks, which has left at least 48 dead, shows no signs of abating. Ms Boulwarte’s government says another ten people have died in accidents or incidents linked to the blockades across the country.
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