The progressive party Juntos por el Perú (JPP) has announced this Tuesday in Congress a motion of censure against the Peruvian Prime Minister, Pedro Angulo, due to the clashes between the Police and demonstrators in the protests that are taking place in the south of the country and that have left at least six people dead.
Specifically, Congresswomen Sigrid Bazán and Ruth Luque have begun to gather the necessary signatures to present a motion of censure against the president of the country’s Council of Ministers, who was sworn in on Saturday, for «poor management of the political crisis facing the country», as detailed by RPP radio station.
«The actions carried out by the Government, whose head is Prime Minister Pedro Angulo, have not contributed at all to the resolution of the conflict and, on the contrary, his statements and the measures that his cabinet has been adopting are dangerous for the reestablishment of calm and social peace», states the document presented by the JPP congresswomen.
According to Bazán and Luque, Angulo has not carried out any measure to solve the problem of «disproportionate police repression», alleging that the deaths registered so far, as well as the «abufant material circulating in various media», prove it.
«The facts described should alert us to take the present measure to reject and depose from political office those who have allowed to put the life and health of the Peruvian population at risk», the congresswomen reiterate.
Peru’s Prime Minister, who has been in office since Saturday, called on Monday for dialogue after announcing that the government of Dina Boluarte will form a crisis cabinet to deal with the protests of demonstrators that have broken out in different parts of the country.
«We call on those people who are causing violence to desist from violence. We want dialogue: we open our arms to solve the problems that, we know, have not been solved before by the governments in office», he indicated, as reported by the Andina news agency.
To date, the protests originated in the south of the country after the dismissal of former president Pedro Castillo to pressure the new government to dissolve the Congress and call presidential elections have claimed the lives of at least six people.
