The president of Peru, the leftist peter castledenounced this Monday an alleged campaign for Congress to dismiss him at a time when he is trying to form a new ministerial cabinet, the fourth in his six months in power.
“In this new media campaign, which aims to promote the vacancy [destitución] presidential election, undemocratic attitudes are exposed in some sectors that only seek to destabilize the country,” he said.
Castillo in a statement released on his Twitter account. “I hope that the political class acts responsibly, thinking of the country and not of mere particular interests or groups,” she added.
Castillo is the target of harsh criticism from the right-wing opposition, who questions his management capacity, and some suggest he step aside to avoid a new vacancy request in Congress. Conservative congresswoman Patricia Chirinos announced that she will present a request for vacancy due to the alleged “moral incapacity” of Castillo, who overcame a similar motion in December.
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Since 2017, “vacancy” motions have been the preferred tool to get rid of Peruvian presidents early and led the country to have three leaders in five days in November 2020.
Castillo indicated that he is putting together a new “broad-based” cabinet, although he avoided specifying when it will be announced. This next cabinet (of 19 members) will be the fourth in Castillo’s six months in power, which have been characterized by his own setbacks and internal struggles in the government, as well as attacks from the radical right, which tried to open an impeachment trial , which was dismissed in December by Congress.
The president, a rural teacher and union leader, last Friday fired Prime Minister Héctor Valer, who had only been in office for three days, after several media outlets revealed that in 2016 he was accused of domestic violence by his daughter and his wife.
Hours before Castillo’s statement, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denounced a campaign by “conservatism” to delegitimize the leftist governments of Castillo in Peru and Xiomara Castro in Honduras.
“We are respectful of the decisions that are being made in other countries, but it is evident that conservatism is working against the legal, legitimately constituted government” of Castillo, the leftist president said in his morning press conference.
Francisco Jara
AFP – Lima
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