The Minister of Social Inclusion assures that the Boluarte government is not of transition

December 7, 2022 when To Boluarte Taking office, he assured that his government would fulfill its mandate until 2026, but after the protests unleashed in various parts of the country, he assured that it was a transitional government that would favor early elections. However, months later, members of the Executive they exclude that this mandate can bear the said qualification.

The Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Julio Demartini, assured that the government of Dina Boluarte is not in transition because so far the call for early legislative elections has not materialized. Said function, as indicated in the Political Constitution of PeruIt’s in Congress. Only two legislative initiatives have been presented by the executive.

“It is true that we left these bills before the Congress. But the Congress comes from the political parties. For this reason, she meets with the parties, because if what we have already done is apparently not taken, then it is the parties who must influence the national representation that they presented to the people who demand decisions,” Demartini said.

As long as Parliament does not decide in this regard, the Executive will continue to fulfill its functions since “it is the responsibility that it confers on us”. He added that the short, medium and long-term decisions will continue to be implemented until the Congress decision is known. “We may have the intention, but, legally, we are not a transitional government, because there is still no decision in Congress,” added the former parliamentarian in conversation with Canal N.

Recall that the first draft of the anticipation of the elections presented by the executive envisaged elections in 2024. Although it obtained support in a first vote, a second round is necessary to formalize it. However, Congress has not followed suit so far. The second draft was sent to the archives amid a crisis in which the benches reached no consensus.

From some political parties and even Congress, Boluarte’s resignation has been mooted as a way to speed up the call for early elections. Magna Carta states that given the inability of vice presidents to assume the presidency, the president of Congress will assume the highest office in the land to call new elections as soon as possible.

The possibility was ruled out by Boluarte itself. On several occasions he indicated that he would not resign, citing the fact that it was a constitutional government. Even so, in recent meetings with political party leaders, some have raised the possibility of his resignation as a way to end the political and social crisis facing Peru.

The Esperanza Front mentioned this departure during its meeting with the Head of State. “We didn’t go to talk, but we went to make ourselves present and tell Dina Boluarte that the problem was her. (…) I pointed out to her that the whole crisis went through her resignation and the call for new elections, to put aside more deaths, more enmity between Peruvians, more persecutions and detainees, and thus give Peru the opportunity to find itself, “revealed the spokesman of the party .

From the Purple Party, the same exit was presented, but, according to Luis Durán, president of the group, Boluarte assured that it was not a transitional government and that it was up to the national representation to decide when new elections will take place. held. Durán stressed that the resignation is a demand constantly heard in the streets and that it would lead to an immediate call to general elections.