Esdras Medina rejects Dina Boluarte’s election proposal: ‘He does not take responsibility’

congressman Ezra Medinaboard member of Somos Perú, has announced that he is preparing a vacancy proposal, which should be ready this Friday to submit it in case the president Dina Boluarte does not retire. In his opinion, with his proposal to hold elections ahead of schedule, the president “avoids” responsibility.

“If she is unable to rule the country, then we must release her. There is a livelihood, but we also have to hope that she analyzes well and that she steps aside, that she resigns, because we already understood that after two months she was not able to run the country well, and after another ten months Peru will plunge into chaos,” he said.

“The decision is in the executive branch, not in Legislature. We have worked (…) The Congress has worked, there are people who feel that they have not worked and want to leave tomorrow, but there is a double discourse. (President Dina Boluarte) always shirks responsibility and the citizen knows it,” he added.

In an interview with RPP Noticias, the parliamentarian recalled that he voted against the proposal Constitutional Commission push the elections to 2023. According to him, the decision executive branch“However, he asked if the president was really Dina Boluarte changed more than once on the day of the end of his term of office.

“The solution is in it. For two months, she did not restore order in Peru, did not seek dialogue, did not coordinate (…) The decision should be made by the executive branch. Why should we keep him to continue ruling for another ten months when he couldn’t do so for two months? The solution is that if he cannot, he must resign,” he said.

On another occasion, the congressman announced that he would vote against bills prepared by the executive branch that called for early elections. The deputy believes that the deadlines provided by the government do not correspond to the deadlines set by the National Electoral Jury for calling new elections.

“What she is doing is hiding behind Congress and not taking responsibility. She must understand that she is in power and that she must seek dialogue, and not with Congress, she must seek dialogue with businessmen and with people who take to the streets in protest, but the streets are asking them to resign, and they must take take responsibility,” he said.

October 2023 general election

He executive branch represented Congress of the Republic a new constitutional reform bill that establishes a change in the term of office of the President of the Republic and the representation of Andean congressmen and parliamentarians elected in the 2021 general election.

The legislative proposal, approved at today’s virtual meeting of the Council of Ministers, provides for the President of the Republic to call a general election to elect the President and Vice-Presidents of the Republic, as well as the Congressmen of the Republic, on the second Sunday of the month of October. year 2023.

The initiative includes four special transitional provisions to Constitution: the first indicates that the term of the president currently in office will end on December 31, 2023. Congressmen will end their representation on December 29, 2023; and representatives in the Andean Parliament on 31 December 2026

It also provides that, in the announcement of the 2026 regional and municipal elections, the President of the Republic, elected in the 2023 general elections, also requires an election for the Andean Parliament, which is sworn in and takes office on 1 January 2027 and ends its representation on 27 July 2028.

The second transitional provision concerns the fact that the President of the Republic elected in 2023 takes the oath and takes office before the Congress on December 31, 2023, and his term expires on July 28, 2028. It adds that the congressmen elected in 2023, they take an oath under the law and take office on December 29 of the same year, and complete their representation on July 26, 2028.

The third transitional provision indicates that the bodies involved in the electoral process take measures within their competence for the optimal and timely conduct of the electoral process, and the fourth indicates that Congress may enact other laws for the 2023 general elections. until February 28 this year.

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