The President of Peru, Dina Boluarteannounced this Monday, minutes after midnight, that will send to Congress a bill to advance the general elections to April 2024a claim from the protesters who have taken to the streets in the last two days in protests in which two people have died.
I have decided to take the initiative to reach an agreement with Congress to advance the general elections to April 2024. In the next few days I will submit to Congress a bill to advance the elections,” Boluarte said in a speech.
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The Peruvian president took office last Wednesday, replacing Pedro Castillodismissed by Congress after he ordered the dissolution of Parliament, announced the formation of an emergency executive, which was to govern by decree, convene a constituent assembly and reorganize the justice system.
Boluarte would conclude his term two years before
In this sense, He said that he makes the decision to advance the elections and not finish his term in July 2026as initially planned, by interpreting “in the broadest way the will of the citizenry and, consequently, with the responsibility that the exercise” of the Government implies.
Boluarte clarified that the approval of this law implies constitutional reforms “that should be approved for the most expeditious procedure.”
In the period from now until the date of holding the early general elections, my government will also promote the agreement in the Congress of the Republic of a law to reform the political system that allows (…) to have a democratic system more efficient, transparent and participatory government”, he said.
With this reform, he hopes that “all the practice of corruption and with political parties legitimized by citizen participation” will be left out.
I call on all the political forces of the country, of the regions and provinces, the authorities, civil society and the Peruvian people to participate in this process so that a wave of democratic will and national responsibility guides and guides us, to lay the foundations legal, institutional, and democratic life of a united, free, and socially just Peru,” he concluded.
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