Dina Boluarte asks Congress to advance the elections to 2023 in the face of the crisis in Peru

The President of Peru, In Boluarteurged Congress this Friday to approve an advance of the general elections for December 2023, as a way out of the serious crisis that the country is experiencing, with protests demanding his resignation.

“We put this bill for the consideration of the ministers to advance the elections to December 2023,” Boluarte said at a government ceremony at the Lima military airport.

“From the Executive we had proposed that these elections be brought forward to April 2024, a project that was voted on once in Congress and the second vote is awaiting. However, the protests continue, there are more blockades and violence,” Boluarte acknowledged. .

Peru has been the scene of demonstrations for seven weeks calling for the resignation of Boluarte, who took office as vice president after the dismissal and arrest of leftist president Pedro Castillo on December 7 for having tried to dissolve Parliament.

Boluarte’s request for a new advance of the elections occurs at a time when the marches and roadblocks that have generated problems of fuel, food and medical supplies shortages have not let up.

“If (the parties) Fuerza Popular and Alianza para el Progreso are asking for what they had already presented (an advance of the elections to 2023), that this proposal be resumed in that sense, which has no conditions and will get us out of the quagmire. where we are,” he said.

Amid protests in Lima and poor and historically marginalized southern Andean regions, the Fujimori party Fuerza Popular proposed on Thursday advancing the general elections in Peru in April 2024 to a date this year, a position that Congress is expected to I can debate this Friday.