The Congress of Peru approved this Thursday night to “urge” the president peter castle to present her irrevocable resignation from the position “immediately for the moral good of the Nation.” The initiative presented by the congresswoman Roselli Amuruzfrom Country advances, had 61 votes in favor, 43 against and 1 abstention. However, said motion is not binding and does not force the president to leave office.
In the exhortation, Amuruz accuses Castillo of demonstrating “total inefficiency and irresponsibility in state affairs” and of exercising “misgovernment” in the country. In addition, he blamed it for stagflation, “which implies an acceleration of inflation coexisting with high employment rates.”
For the congresswoman, the president “was involved in his four walls without informing the country of the six deaths of innocent people, due to his total mismanagement, ineptitude in the administration of public affairs and improvisations, demonstrating contempt for human rights ” , facing the conflicts that occurred in Huancayo, Lima and various points in the interior of the country.
“The misrule is deserving of the rejection of the national population, demonstrated in various social demonstrations throughout the national territory”, running the risk of “reaching serious levels of social upheaval that would further harm the political, social and economic health of the Republic” , expresses Amuruz in the motion approved by Congress.
political crisis
This motion approved by Congress comes in the midst of a political crisis in the government headed by Castillo, after several days of demonstrations in the streets that included a curfew in Lima and Callao, approved by the president in the early hours of Tuesday, and dozens of people were injured and one deceased.
Specifically, Castillo had established a curfew from 2:00 from the early hours of this Tuesday (Peruvian time) until 23:59 of that same day. In a television message, Castillo argued that this measure was a response “to the acts of violence that some groups have wanted to create” and seeks to “restore peace and internal order.”
The protests initiated by transporters and agro-industrial workers due to the increase in the price of fuel and its correlate in basic necessities, made Castillo decree a curfew that, hours later, was suspended due to criticism from the opposition and intensifying of the mobilizations in the streets.
In addition to Castillo, a large part of his cabinet has been questioned and even the president himself asked the population, in the IV Decentralized Council of Ministerstell him which member of the ministerial cabinet should be changed in case you consider that your efforts are deficient.
Also, the Chief of Staff, Aníbal Torres, It has also been at the center of criticism and Congresswoman Flor Pablo Medina, of the Purple Party, is in the midst of collecting supporters to call for an interpellation in Congress.