Regional governments have asked Dina Boluarte to correct herself for accusing them of inciting protests and blockades

There National Assembly of Regional Governments (ANGR) requested this Friday that the President To Boluarte rectify your statements in which you accused governors and mayors of inciting protests and blockades, especially in the southern zone.

By means of an open letter, the collective asked the president “to correct or withdraw the erroneous assessments, perceptions and false accusations” concerning the participation of regional and local authorities in “social movements of protest and indignation policy “.

The complaint relates specifically to 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, wanting to keep encouraging the people of their region, not working with the executive, what will be the response? boluarte and 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.

In this regard, the association chaired by the Governor Rohel Sanchez (Arequipa) maintained that these expressions are “completely false”, in addition to qualifying them as “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.

This afternoon, the Head of State pointed out that they had misinterpreted his statements. “The intention is to invoke. Once again, I call on regional and local authorities to continue working,” he noted.

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.

Of the more than 1,200 protests held in January, 86.7% were linked to the wave of anti-government protests demanding Boluarte’s resignation and the advancement of elections to 2023, among other demands.