The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, said Tuesday that those people who have been taking to the streets for weeks now demanding a Constituent Assembly are being «deceived» because it is not up to the head of state to move in this direction.
«It is not up to Dina Boluarte, it is not up to the Executive (…) They are deceiving (the demonstrators) by saying that it is Dina Boluarte who has to resolve the issue of the Constituent Assembly. This is not true», the President remarked in declarations before the media.
Likewise, Boluarte regretted that the demands for an Assembly are «a pretext to continue blocking highways and to continue breaking the country’s institutionality», since the achievement of these advances does not happen «overnight».
On the other hand, the president has stressed that the other main demand reflected in the demonstrations, an electoral advance, is already being addressed by the Parliament of the Andean nation, according to the Peruvian newspaper ‘El Comercio’.
Part of the Peruvian population has taken to the streets in different parts of the country since the dismissal and arrest of former president Pedro Castillo in early December after the frustrated attempt to arrogate more powers to himself.
Among the main demands of the demonstrators is the departure of Boluarte – until then Castillo’s ‘number two’ -, the holding of new elections and the drafting of a new constitution for Peru.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
