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Boluarte asks the OAS for regional support for an electoral advance in Peru

Washington, Jan 25 (EFE).- Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday urged “friendly countries” to support the proposal to advance the elections and achieve a “peaceful” solution to the crisis in which she has been immersed. Peru. “Help Peru direct its destiny through free elections,” Boluarte requested in a virtual intervention before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), based in Washington, which held a protocol session to listen to his portrait of the situation in the country. Ella Boluarte said that she has listened “very carefully” to the interventions of her colleagues at the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), in Buenos Aires, and she appreciated the expressions of concern and solidarity with Peru. Even so, the president wanted to ask her counterparts in other countries a question: “What solution do you propose in the face of the crisis in Peru? The solution of violence or of peace and democracy?” During the Celac summit, Peruvian Foreign Minister Ana Gervasi regretted on Tuesday that there are governments that “have not accompanied “Peru” after the failed self-coup by former president Pedro Castillo, although she did not specify which countries she was referring to. Speaking at Celac, the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, had opined that Peru needs a “change of course” in the face of the “unacceptable” violence of the last month, while his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who did not attend the meeting of Buenos Aires, called for a joint pronouncement against the “repression” and for the freedom of Castillo. In his address to the OAS, Boluarte recalled that he asked the Peruvian Congress to approve “as soon as possible” the advancement of the elections. “And I sincerely hope that the friendly countries of the region support the only way out of the crisis,” he pointed out, at the same time that I consider that said way out is “at the same time peaceful, constitutional, and consistent with the tradition of the Organization of American States and region of”. Precisely this Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, indicated that the Government is “satisfied” with the schedule established by Congress for the second vote on the bill that proposes bringing forward the general elections to April 2024, after meeting with the board of directors of Parliament. Throughout her speech, Boluarte reviewed the events that took place in her country from Castillo’s failed self-coup, to the protests and the initiative to advance the elections. Regarding this electoral advance, he stressed his commitment to “provide more than 33 million Peruvians with the opportunity to decide their destiny” with the participation of all political and social forces, since “the stability of the country is at stake” . And he warned that he is not going to surrender “before authoritarian groups” that cannot impose solutions that are “outside the constitutional order.” He insisted that his Government defends the right to protest peacefully, but that the State “has to ensure security and order” and assured that in the event of abuses by the security forces, it will be brought before the Justice to those responsible. Since Castillo’s failed self-coup, Peru has found itself in the midst of a serious political and social crisis, where anti-government protests have claimed the lives of more than 60 people since December. (c) EFE Agency