The President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, will not travel to Brazil this Sunday to attend the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as confirmed on Wednesday by the Minister of Justice, José Tello.
Tello explained that Boluarte’s absence is due to the follow-up they are doing on the draft legislative resolution presented earlier this week in Congress, which proposes that the head of Parliament, José Williams Zapata, will be the one to assume the presidency when the president is absent.
The proposal has raised suspicions in Peru, as some constitutionalists assure that such modification of the rules of the Congress would be against the provisions of the Constitution of the country, according to the newspaper ‘La República’.
Tello has assured that they are respectful with the separation of powers and has stated that they will assume the decision taken by the Congress. In another moment of his intervention before the press, he confirmed that the session to debate the proposal has been postponed in order to be reviewed so that it does not contravene the Constitution.
«Dialogue is the north of this Government and therefore everything that is dialogue and making decisions that give the tranquility of the case to all political actors is the most prudent thing to do,» said Tello.
Lula da Silva will take office this Sunday, January 1, for the third time as president of Brazil after two consecutive terms in the first decade of 2000. While waiting for Peru to designate a representative, what is already known is that three times as many foreign delegations will attend as those who attended Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
