Early elections: Miguel Torres asks far-right benches to ’empathize with citizens’

Fuerza Popular political spokesman, Michael Torresin dialogue with RPP Newshe referred to a proposal to postpone the elections to 2023, which his political group’s bench had been promoting in recent weeks and which had not been approved in plenary due to a lack of consensus.

In this regard, the former congressman called on right-wing factions to show “sympathy for citizens” who need “a signal from their politicians that a way out can be found.”

“I can understand the reasons extreme rightthey may think they have to finish their work; but they should also be empathiclook at reality, worry not only about those who are at the rallies, but also for small entrepreneurs who cannot open their own business, for relatives of the military,” he said.

In this sense, he pointed out that people power “He is not inferior” to the “far left” as this year’s election promotion was “proposed by Fujimorismo even before (Pedro) Castillo left the presidency.”

“We are going to continue to vote for 2023, as we said before the departure of Mr. Castillo. We are told that we are yielding, but we said this long before that, ”he said.

Similarly, he remarked that if he “listened Keiko Fujimori”In terms of moving forward with the elections, ‘maybe we wouldn’t have had the loss of life and damage that happened.’

Early elections this year ‘could still be approved’

Despite this, Fuerza Popular’s political spokesman indicated they were “realistic” in that the promotion elections for 2023 at the plenary session of the Congress.

“This is not optimism, this is realism. We see that we are in a crisis that does not stop. The decibels may have dropped in Lima, but Lima is not Peru. said Keiko to show that (…) anything can happen in plenary sessions. The topic can be introduced immediately, it can be discussed, it can be approved,” he said.

In addition, he observed that the fact that a proposal of this type was not planned and, despite this, approved, “should not come as a surprise.”

“The fact that this is not planned should not surprise us. There are many things that are not planned and a decision can be made at any moment (…) First, what we have to decide is what is expected and what is the project of the executive, in accordance with the position people powerthat is, the elections of 2023, not additional, (but) for five years,” he said.

“Keiko Fujimori could be a candidate in 2026 or in the future”

Regarding the political future of Keiko Fujimori as a presidential candidate, Michael Torres He indicated that he did not agree with his decision not to run in a possible early election.

“I do not agree with the decision Keiko. I respect her and I respect her as a fighter, but she gave me a reason that seems to me a good one: “I started this question about postponing the elections to 2023 and it seems unethical to me to run because they are going to say (…) that we are doing all this because we want him to compete‘. “I am not going to make all those excuses that they use fall away and show the population their true colors.‘ specified in relation to the decision Fujimori Higuchi.

However, she claimed that she could become a “candidate” after these possible early elections.

“Yes, of course, she has not ceased to be a citizen, to have the right to be elected and to vote (…) After that, she can run. And hopefully she will do this in 2026 or in the future. She is very young and he still has a lot of space “, he stressed.