Peruvian President Dina Boluarte calls to move the elections up to 2023 as the lawmakers convene for a vote amid deadly protests that englufed the Latin American nation since December
The South American country has been embroiled in a political crisis with near-daily street protests since December 7, when then-president Pedro Castillo was arrested after attempting to dissolve Congress and rule by decree.
refuse, she will propose a constitutional reform so that a first round of elections will be held in October and a runoff in December. The unrest is coming mainly from poor, rural Indigenous people from southern Peru who had identified Castillo — Indigenous and from that same region — as one of their own who would fight to end poverty, racism and inequality from which they suffer.
Demonstrators are calling for immediate elections, as well as Boluarte's removal, the dissolution of Congress and a new constitution."If I am here it is because I fulfilled my constitutional responsibility."
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