Peru’s Minister of Labor, Eduardo Garcia Birimisa, resigned Thursday following the latest clashes between security forces and protesters, which have left at least 49 people dead.
Almost a month after taking the oath of office, García Birimisa has sent a letter to the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, indicating his «irrevocable resignation» following the deaths in the regions of Puno and Cuzco.
«This time I believe that the attention to social demands is no longer sufficient for what the country needs. The tragedies we have just experienced prove it,» remarked the now ex-Minister of Labor in a statement released on the social network Twitter.
«It requires a pronouncement from the Government expressing the pain we feel for the loss of the lives of our brothers, for the losses suffered by those families. It is required to apologize to the population and to recognize that mistakes have been made that must be corrected so that this does not happen again,» said the Minister of Labor in the letter.
In this sense, he affirmed that the current situation faced by the country deserves a change of faces in the country’s leadership, as well as an early election «which cannot wait until April 2024».
In the opinion of García Birimisa, the failure to call elections generates a wear and tear which, at least in his case, disqualifies him from implementing a dialogue construction.
«All the yearnings I may have had to contribute a little to my country no longer justify my permanence in the Government, the possibility of contributing to guarantee the fundamental labor rights of workers, social dialogue as the only guarantee of democracy in labor relations and in the country, the promotion of decent employment and social security», he has enumerated.
«Therefore, I hereby submit my irrevocable resignation as Minister of State in the portfolio of Labor and Employment Promotion,» he added.
CRITICISM OF THE CONGRESS However, the Peruvian Minister of Labor has lashed out against the polarization existing in the Congress, where «the majority» of the parliamentarians «seems to conceive as the only reaction to sharpen the contradictions».
«I do not believe that this attitude allows us to share ideas to enrich our perspectives and, on the contrary, it condemns us to try to impose one idea over the other at the cost of achieving narrow majorities. This is not the way to approve fundamental political reforms», said García Birimisa.
According to him, all Peruvians need to enter «in a process of reflection» to understand that those who think differently «are not necessarily wrong».
«We need to be able to discuss with a serious dialogue, in which we validate the position of the other and make an effort to understand their reasons, only then will we be able to respect and identify ourselves,» he added.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
