Alberto Otarola asks the prosecutor’s office for the same urgency to investigate against the government in the investigation of those who “destroy Peru”

Head of Cabinet, Alberto Otarolapointed out that Government available to the prosecutor’s office for cooperation in the investigation against Dina Boluarte and others (among ministers and former ministers) for genocide and qualified murder; however, he asked Public service people search speed “they are destroying Peru”.

“As for the tax files, we can say that we are ready to investigate. We just wish that with the same urgency National Prosecutor’s Office tell us what fiscal folders exist for people who are destroying Peru and airports,” he said at a press conference.

“We received a visit from several prosecutors, both by notification to the house and to the headquarters of the prosecutor’s office. Government. We will cooperate actively and with all transparency, providing information that prosecution. We are the main stakeholders in the fact that this investigation is moving forward and being completed, ”the head of the department added. Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

About the visit of the Inter-American Commission

On the other hand, he deplored the deaths so far due to the protests and indicated that “we will all get to the bottom of the truth” about the facts and that during the visit of the Inter-American Commission, he indicated that Government and Police was attacked by demonstrators.

“We don’t want another death, Government, they say there was a massacre, an authoritarian civil-military government, but the Inter-American Commission was told that the only thing that happened here was that thousands of people wanted to take over the airports (…) The police did not suppress people in the streets, protected themselves and the airports . It was in this context that these unfortunate deaths occurred. The police and the state were attacked, it was not about peaceful marches,” he said. Otarola.

Welcomes the establishment of the Congressional Commission

He also pointed out that the government did not have time to analyze a scenario like the current one and criticized that the conflicts were “instigated and prepared by the outgoing coup government, and the coup president has been preparing it for a year and a half.” However, he argued that an “intensive process of dialogue” is being sought through platforms for negotiation with the regions.

In addition, Otarola announced the government’s support for Congress to approve the creation of a commission of inquiry to clarify responsibility for the marches that killed people in December 2022 and January 2023.

“I would like to reiterate that we are absolutely committed to ending violence, violence only breeds more violence that damages life, integrity and private public property,” the head of the PCM commented to the press.

Dina Boluarte has no intention of retiring

When asked if the President Dina Boluarte is about to retire, she pointed out that “this fact will not happen, not because she does not want to do it, but because the Constitution requires this succession to take effect, and because leaving the presidency of the Republic will open the door for anarchy and government.

“Promotion of the electoral law is on the agenda of Congress, and part of the solution to this problem is for Congress to decide once and for all the meaning of this law and ratify it in the near future. This is a constitutional way out of the institutional and non-maximalist crisis,” he said.