Jorge del Castillo: “It is imperative that APRA participate in the next general election”

Jorge del Castilloformer minister and former APRA congressman, considered his political party’s involvement “indispensable”for the political life of the country in view of the early general elections, which are still scheduled for April 2024.

“It is essential, and I emphasize: it is necessary that APRA to participate, because it gives a share, firstly, of the ideological position, the national attitude of the state level and experience. Failing that, let’s see what happens,” he said in News Extension.

Besides, castle assured that he had “no doubt” that APRA You will be able to participate in the next general election, whether it is this year or 2024.

“APRA is practically able to tell “Calm down, comrades, this week we hope that the resolution will come out”. I don’t understand why it should take longer. Regardless of whether they (elections) take place or not, we will still have registration, and the Aprista party will be able to participate. I have no doubt,” he said.

According to the former parliamentarian, Aprista leaders and activists have done a painstaking job of collecting signatures across the country and have already submitted a “complete dossier” to the National Electoral Jury (ENV).

” APRA He submitted his full dossier on 6 September last year. We were a group of leaders, militants, to support what we were working for. I myself traveled to different provinces, like other colleagues made great efforts,” he said.

In addition, he doubted that the former president Martin Vizcarra He promoted reforms such as non-re-election of congressmen and believed that Parliament needed to have experienced politicians, which, according to what he indicated, his party has.

“It’s a bit of a holdover from Martin Vizcarra’s bad decision to ban re-election, because congressmen, when there is some experience, which we have, the Aprista bench has demonstrated in its time the ability to improve political decisions,” held.

Disapproval of this year’s elections ‘adds fuel to the fire’

On the other hand, the former parliamentarian referred to the refusal of the Plenum Congress replacement text to advance this year’s general elections.

“This could add fuel to the fire. Instead of looking for a reasonable political solution, we tied our hands. And I foresaw this because I listened not to conciliatory, but to confrontational speeches. ” he thought.

In that sense, he questioned the way Congressional President Jose Williams handled the session and said there were “strategies” that could be applied in the face of yesterday’s scenario with little consensus.

“If I see that I don’t have a consensus, I don’t put it to a vote. If I see that I will lose, I suspend the session. You can carry out a number of manipulations, everything is completely legal. , and don’t worry. I am interrupting the meeting to go to the intermediate room and so that (congressmen) understand each other,” he explained.

“Politics is the art of the viable, that which is not viable, not political. You can wrap yourself in the Peruvian flag and say you are a Troma, but if that is not viable, then it is useless,” he added.

Similarly, he questioned the “attitude” of congressmen from Free Peru and other benches who voted for the vacancy of former President Pedro Castillo and are now expressing their support for citizen mobilization.

“I emphasize that those who voted for the vacancy were those who were supposed to be loyal to Pedro Castillo and who betrayed him at the last moment (…) So what do they claim if they voted for the vacancy and thus they knew that they were sitting on the throne Dina Boluarte (…) These people are losing their powers to campaign (…) These people hypocritically declare, shout, set fire to the steppe, but voted for the vacancy,” he stressed.