Alvaro Vargas Llosa: “I do not agree with the resignation of Dina Boluarte, but I agree with early elections”

Alvaro Vargas Llosajournalist and writer, in dialogue with RPP Newsspoke about the current political and social crisis that our country has been experiencing since December 7 last year.

In this regard, the son of the Nobel Prize indicated that he was in favor of promoting a general election, and not for the resignation of the president. Dina Boluarte.

“Exit is (…) an electoral advance. I do not agree with the high percentage of public opinion calling for the president’s resignation. Dina Boluartebut yes with the advancement of the elections, because I believe that when a climate like the one that prevails in Peru at the moment is created, it is necessary to look for a political solution, within the constitutional channels and, obviously, it should be elections,” he said.

He also questioned the Parliament’s actions in approving before the general election.

“It is a matter of great outrage that Congress There were no circumstances for this to become possible, but I do not lose hope that it will be soon,” he said.

“We are not in an illegal or dictatorial government”

In the same time, Alvaro Vargas Llosa considered it “monstrous injustice” to claim that the government Dina Boluarte it is an illegal or dictatorial regime.

“It is a monstrous injustice to say that there is an illegal, unconstitutional, dictatorial government in Peru, that there is a military dictatorship in Peru. Another thing is that in the confrontation with aggressive demonstrators there were tragedy I’m sorry, but this is what democracy exists for, so that when a tragedy of this kind occurs, the institutions, the prosecutor’s office, the police, the judiciary investigate, draw decisive conclusions and punish those who should be punished,” he said. .

In addition, he believes that these pending investigations are far from qualifying the current government as illegal.

“Hence the attempt to establish the idea that Peru is governed by an unconstitutional and illegal regime is unacceptable stretch. It is imperative that the actors inside Peru begin to act loyal to democracy, because if they do not, they themselves contribute to this deterioration, which benefits no one except the totalitarians, because it destroys the economy, the country’s international relations and violence increases “, – he said.

“It is one huge delusion, Regardless of what is the ideal way out of this crisis, regardless of whether for or against President Boluarte, democracy rules in Peru, and that imperfect democracy today, as yesterday, must be strengthened. so that everything that happens in the future happens within the constitutional framework,” he added.

country smear campaign

In this line Alvaro Vargas Llosa He believed that due to the current socio-political upheavals, the country’s image abroad was “very bad”.

“The image of the country is very bad, very negative, the economic consequences of which are already being felt. The deterioration of Peru’s image also does not contribute to the strengthening of democracy itself, since domestic actors use this deterioration to achieve their goals. goals that are not always compatible with social peace or democratic stability,” he stressed.

In addition, he believed that there is a “sector of public opinion” that forms an “interested vision” of what is happening in the country abroad.

“There is a section of public opinion that self-interestedly (…) tries to impose the notion that Peru is ruled by a military dictatorship and that against (a) the dictatorship there is a national democratic resistance movement that seeks to restore a democracy that would give way”, he explained.

Similarly, he believed that the speedy implementation of new general elections.

“Ultimately, what will help correct this vision is that there will be an electoral solution that will have a very broad consensus in society and allow Peru to lead towards a certain normalization. To the extent that social peace is restored and election expectations begin to mobilize various political actors within the framework of democracy, and as everything returns to a certain normality (…), it is obvious that the foreign campaign will lose a lot of ground.”

Finally, the son of Mario Vargas Llosa argued that mobilization should take place within the framework of the “norms of behavior” of a “civilized society”.

“Decisions that are made in an environment with this polarization and this violence are sometimes right, sometimes not. This happens in all parts of the world. But the important thing is that people who oppose acting within what norms of behavior in a civilized society and that, as we all know, this was not always the case.