:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/ARTWINXK4NGIDL5UO6XGX7JO2Y.jpg "Peruvian congressmen divided over decision to declare Gustavo Petro ‘persona non grata’")
There Congressional Foreign Relations Committee decided today to declare the Colombian president “persona non grata” Gustavo Petro after his controversial statements on National Police of Peru comparing him to the Nazis. The document was approved by a majority (13 votes for, 3 abstentions and none against).
The Foreign Relations Commission approves the declaration of Gustavo Petro “persona non grata”
The parliamentary group rejected the Colombian president’s statements on the national police. The agreement must be discussed in plenary.
“In Peru, they march like Nazis, against their own people, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights said Petro of the deployment of police for the marches in the historic center of Lima.
Immediately, Peruvian parliamentarians reacted to what happened with the Colombian head of state. From LEFT wing LAW.
Peruvian congressmen ask to declare Petro “persona non grata” for his comments on the national police
Norma Yarrow, Jorge Montoya, Patricia Chirinos, among other right-wing bench politicians, have called on the Foreign Ministry to take action against the Colombian president.
Flavio Cruz spokesperson for Free Peru noted that Peru was going to be “friendless” in Latin America. “We will find ourselves without friends. If someone has no friends here in Latin America, it is, for example, Venezuela. It looks like we are going to run out of friends like Venezuela,” he told reporters.
For his part, his bench colleague, Silvana Robles, called the approval of the motion against Petro “regrettable”. “The DBA (Derecha Bruta y Achorada) does not stop the plan to break our international relations from any regime that denounces the abuses of the dictatorship (In) Boluarte“, he wrote on his social networks.
Fuerza Popular, Cambio Democrático and other benches propose to resume the debate for the advancement of the 2023 elections
The right and left benches are asking the President of Congress to broaden the agenda to “put the established exception to a vote” to give rise to the debate on the progress of the legislative elections.
Meanwhile, the deputy Alex Flores pointed out that “the Congress right led by Maricarmen Alva who went to cry for the fascists VOX from Spain in solidarity with their coup attempts, they have no morality to demand anything from Colombia”.
had a different reading Maria del Carmen Alva (Popular Action)who runs the Foreign Relations Committee. At a press conference, he asked the Minister of the Interior and the national police for not allowing Petro to enter the country for any reason despite his presidential inauguration.
On the other hand, the Vice-President of the Congress, Martha Moyano (Popular Force)and his colleague Alejandro Cavero (Country Advance) They spread the news that Petro – when he was a guerrilla – defecated on the people he kidnapped and had fascist actions.
“Mr. Petro doesn’t have to meddle with his nose in Peru. The guerrillas he was part of acted like Nazis and he defecated on the Colombian hostages. It’s acting like a fascist, like a Nazi. Mr. Petro doesn’t have the moral authority to come here to talk about what the country, Peru, is doing,” Cavero said.
However, it should be noted that what Moyano and Cavero mentioned is completely wrong. The gate Check Colombia denied this misinformation about Petro which started circulating in 2020 following a fake screenshot that supposedly came from the Diary of the week.
Meanwhile, the third vice-president, Alejandro Muñante (popular revival)wrote on his social networks: “No to interference. The only person responsible for the breakdown of relations between the sister nations of Peru and Colombia has a first and last name: Gustavo Petro”.
Former ministers also joined in this rejection of Peruvian parliamentarians.
“President Gustavo Petro’s political interference in the country’s internal affairs is unacceptable. He first used lies to defend putschist Castillo. He said he had been detained without a warrant. Now it infuriates the Police,” wrote the former prime minister. Pedro Cateriano.
In addition, former foreign minister Aprista Luis Gonzales Posada promoted a public letter against Petro. The letter is signed by old faces of Peruvian politics such as Mauricio Mulder, Lourdes Flores Nano, Antero Flores Aráoz, Mercedes Aráoz, Rafael Rey, Luis Galarreta, Carlos Bruce, José Barba Caballero and the former president’s wife Alan Garcia, Pilar Nores, among other personalities.
In January, the government of Dina Boluarte described as “act of interference” the statement of the Colombian President, Gustavo Petroreferring to the intervention of the police on January 21 at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos which arrested nearly 200 people, including students and demonstrators from the interior of Peru who were staying in said university, and who were then released.