Dina Boluarte clarified the accusation against governors and mayors: “My expressions have been misinterpreted, let’s keep working”

There President Dina Boluarte He said on Friday that his remarks on governors and mayors, whom he accused of fueling protests and blockages, especially in the southern zone, were misinterpreted, and that his appeal sought an agreement.

“Some of my expressions have been misinterpreted, the intention has been to continue to call for work on this unity that the country needs. Once again, I call on all local and regional authorities, let’s continue to work,” said she said at a press conference where she was accompanied by the Prime Minister Alberto Otárola and the Chancellor Ana Gervasi.

A few hours before, the National Assembly of Regional Governments (ANGR) had asked the president to “correct or withdraw erroneous assessments, perceptions and false accusations”.

The assertion focused specifically on what Boluarte said at the end of his meetings with Keiko Fujimori (Popular Force) and Patricia Li (Somos Peru), in which the “concern” about the roadblock which, he added, may prevent the arrival of teaching materials for the start of the school year.

“The bone governors and mayors They were elected recently, but if they are going to use this rhetoric of wanting to keep closing the roads, of wanting to keep encouraging the people of their region, of not working with the Executive, what will be the response? assured that some do not want to work with the executive.

“It is very important that the roads are unblocked as soon as possible because the responsibility of those who continue to block the roads and of those who still encourage them to continue to block the roads will be theirs if the teaching materials fail to time at the start of the school year in March, ”he noted.

The association, chaired by the Governor Rohel Sanchez (Arequipa), maintained in an open letter that Boluarte’s statements were “completely false”, in addition to calling them “emotional levity” which are more serious due to the condition of president of the person who expresses them.

“Unnecessarily, this generates a dangerous scenario of social conflict in our regions. Likewise, it contravenes the democratic relationship that must exist between the national government or the executive branch with regional governments and local governments, both provincial and district,” the statement said.

According to the Ombudsman, it was only last month that the country recorded more than 200 social conflicts and more than 1,260 demonstrationsthe highest figure since records exist, due to the social and political crisis which, since December 2022, adds a death toll of 70.

The data show that during the month of January, 219 social conflicts were recorded in the Andean country —165 active and 63 latent— and 1,261 protests, a record in the archives of this institution.