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By: Roberto Morejon
Not even because Pedro Castillo asked the disqualified OEA to mediate, the fanatical right wing with control of the legislature in Peru was cowed in its stubbornness against the nation’s president and processed the third motion to sack him.
The Peruvian Congress proposes on December 7 to sack the president with the number of vacancies for what he describes as “permanent moral incompetence”.
This is not an isolated attempt to overthrow the head of state elected in the ballot box, as they are already preventing him from doing his job.
With racist tendencies and hysterical anti-communism, Castillo’s adversaries try to make his supposedly democratic spirit believe, but they don’t succeed.
In Congress, an opposition leaning towards the hard-line former President Alberto Fujimori and his daughter Keiko’s presidential claims is pulling the strings.
A permanent crisis began since the 2016 elections, when Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected President of the Republic and defeated Popular Force candidate Keiko Fujimori.
Kuczynski resigned in 2018 amid scandals and job postings, the favorite weapon of opponents in parliament.
The next statesman, MartÃn Vizcarra, suffered the same fate as he was sacked by Congress in 2020 for “moral incompetence”.
Five presidents followed him to the elections won by Pedro Castillo, now besieged by parliamentarians and judges, before he asked the OAS to mediate.
A group from this entity visited Peru and after meeting with political actors recommended a ceasefire and called for a national dialogue.
The OAS highlighted what many warn against: high levels of political fragmentation, the questioning of law enforcement officials and the obstruction of power, among other tyranny.
But the right did not give up on its destabilizing strategy, and Congress prevented Castillo from attending the Pacific Alliance summit in Mexico, where he was scheduled to assume the pro-temporary presidency.
The pact proposes to meet in Lima, despite the irritated atmosphere in the country due to the political strife and outbreaks of bird flu and Covid-19.
Meanwhile, Peruvians are shocked by the confrontation between the different powers in the state and are asking when they will take care of their problems.
Reasons speak for one of the political actors interviewed by the OAS when he claimed that there was a civil war between public institutions in Peru.