Vice President of Peru denounces coup; Ambassador to the OAS resigns due to “rupture” of the constitutional order

The Vice President of Peru, In Boluartedenounced this Wednesday “a coup d’état” after the decision of the leftist president Pedro Castillo to dissolve Congress and install an emergency government.

“I reject Pedro Castillo’s decision to break the constitutional order by closing Congress. It is a coup d’état that aggravates the political and institutional crisis that Peruvian society will have to overcome with strict adherence to the law,” he said. Boluarte on Twitter.

Ambassador of Peru to the OAS resigns

The ambassador of Peru to the Organization of American States (OAS), Harold Forsyth Mejía, resigned this Wednesday due to “the rupture” of the constitutional order after the president Castillo dissolved Congress.

Hours before Parliament met to debate his dismissal, Castillo announced the dissolution of Congress and established an emergency government in a measure interpreted as a self-coup by officials and political analysts.

“We are in a rupture, to put it at least technically, of the constitutional order, which naturally constitutes a very serious affront for the constitutional process in Peru, for democracy in Peru and for democracy in all the countries that are part of this organization,” the ambassador said during a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington.

For moral and professional reasons, I cannot have any connection with a regime that works based on decrees and that (…) indicates that, eventually, it will call elections, I don’t know on what legal basis” and “that it will govern by decrees”, added.

“Since I do not govern myself by decrees, but I act based on the law, this is then, in this capacity as permanent representative of Peru before the OAS, my last intervention,” he said the day before an extraordinary session on the preliminary report of the group of high level who visited Peru to analyze the serious political crisis in the country.

In the preliminary report presented last week, the high-level group recommends “a political truce” while it seeks to “direct a formal dialogue.”