"Do you want us kicked out?" Congresswoman Kira Alcarraz, from the Podemos party, summarized in just six words the general feeling in Peru after the blockade of the latest parliamentary initiative to advance the elections. The two days of comings and goings in Congress, which even included a meeting in style at the Presidential Palace, failed to gather the necessary support in the absence of the final vote for the constitutional reform project that contemplated elections for December of this year.
With only 54 votes in favor and 68 against, the deputies once again imposed their partisan and personal interests with their backs turned on a country overwhelmed by the spiral of violence, the political crisis and social depression. 87% of the country, according to surveys, have reiterated their rejection of the current Congress.
At the head of those who do not want a way out for the general elections, the left and the radical right were placed again. «To vote in favor would be to vote in favor of Dina Boluarte staying until next year, it would be to give up accompanying the social mobilization, it would be to vote for the death of our brothers. They are afraid of the Constituent Assembly”, harangued deputy Flavio Cruz, from Peru Libre (PL), the Marxist-Leninist party that championed the coup leader Pedro Castillo.
Very similar words were used by groups that have broken away from PL, such as the Magisterial Bloc, Peru Bicentenario and Peru Democrático, as well as the more moderate left of Cambio Democrático.
Also against it was once again pronounced Popular Renovation, which hid behind the fact that it is an unconstitutional reform. The main leader of the radical Trumpists in Peru, Rafael López Aliaga, has just assumed the Mayor's Office of Lima. The majority of the center-right Alianza Popular and half of the conservative Avanza País did not join the initiative either.
The project agreed upon by Fujimori leader Nano Guerra unsuccessfully proposed bringing forward the first round to December, which would entail a ballot if necessary for January or February. The inauguration of the new president and the new deputies would have taken place on April 30 and May 1 of next year.
The new text contemplated the possibility that the deputies stand for re-election, as it is a complementary period to complete the legislature, which ends in mid-2026. The minimum agreement, which has been insufficient, eluded the possibility of its being introduced a question for a new Magna Carta to be drafted.
As the country glared at a Congress unable to find a way out of the alley, the protests and blockades continued. Various journalistic investigations have confirmed, through video cameras installed in the streets, that the protester who died last weekend near Parliament was hit in the head by a tear gas canister.
To add more tension, this time from outside, the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, asked yesterday for the release of the dismissed president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, and his reinstatement in the Government. "Freedom for Pedro Castillo! Presidency for Pedro Castillo! Long live the unity of the Peruvian people!" Ortega exclaimed during an official act that took place in Managua.
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