Just six months after taking office, the president faces a vote of no confidence from the right
Pedro Castillo was elected president of Peru on June 6. Just six months later, he faces the possibility of being subjected to a legal figure that the Constitution of the Andean country recognizes with the name of vacancy, which is the closest thing to an ‘impeachment’ or political trial of his management at the head of the Government, and what sources close to the president describe as an attempted coup d’état organized by political parties of the right that have not yet accepted the coming to power of a rural professor with a clear leftist tendency.
On July 28, the day that Peru celebrated its bicentennial, in the name of God, his family and the whole of Peru, Castillo promised everything at the inauguration of the position for which he was elected for a period of five years. “I will not defraud you. It is the time for national reconstruction, ”he told the people who had chosen him instead of Keiko Fujimori, the rival candidate who represented the forces opposed to the ideology of the winner.
In six months in power, Castillo has lived as a soccer coach whose future is at stake in each line-up and in each game. Since arriving at the presidential palace, he has not had a minute’s truce. Every decision has been questioned. His first cabinet was born under suspicion. He soon had to invite his prime minister, Guido Bellido, to resign. Subsequent changes have not been accepted either. Both on the part of his opponents and his supporters.
He came in as a tough leftist, but now some see a lean to the right. He said he was going to fight corruption, but it turns out that his secretary general, Bruno Pacheco, had to resign accused of influence peddling and after agents of the public ministry found in the bathroom of his office, in the presidential palace, $ 20,000 , which he justified as money saved and a product of his salary.
Castillo, his opponents accuse him of not having a solvent minister, of appointing neo-elderistas, and of influencing military appointments to subordinate the Armed Forces. Castillo is also criticized for dispatching in a private home and not in the presidential office, and not, precisely, with people cleared of tax investigations or money laundering.
Instability
All this policy of shock has weakened and brought against the ropes a government that emerged from the instability of a country that in five years has had as many presidents, and that after three months of being in power had to submit to a vote confidence, which he overcame by twelve votes.
In view of the situation and the call for the vacancy motion for tomorrow, proposed by the third vice president of Congress, Patricia Chirinos, of the Avanza País party, Castillo has tried to dialogue with the leaders of the political parties. Those from Renovación Popular, Fuerza Popular and Avanza País have rejected any contact. The objective was none other than to try to build consensus to avoid political instability before Parliament votes to admit the motion. To accept it for processing, 32 votes of the plenary session are required, but for it to proceed, two thirds of the assembly are necessary, 87 votes out of 130 seats.
Accused of having been clumsy in any of his acts, the truth is that Castillo has challenged the opposition and the relevant authorities to prove with evidence all the allegations revealed. In this sense, the vice president of Congress, Lady Camones, declared that the vacancy motion is an exercise of control to the head of state, who must go to Congress to render accounts as a result of the questioning of his management. “The president must have the tools and the support to be able to distort each of the accusations that are made,” Camones said.
In his first six months as president, Castillo has devoted much of his time to fulfilling one of his campaign slogans that spoke of a government of the people must be where its people need it most. The 7.5-magnitude earthquake suffered last day 2 led him to visit the affected areas of the Amazon, Cajamarca, Loreto and San Martín. Also in November, it inaugurated a wind project to produce electricity from renewable sources in the Peruvian highlands that will benefit 38 towns. And it has been able to present the budget for next year, 197,000 million soles basically destined to health, education, promotion of employment and productivity, agriculture and alleviation of poverty.
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