Dina Boluarte: “Here I tell Mr. Petro to dedicate himself to running Colombia”

President Dina Boluarte spoke this Saturday about the recent remarks of her Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petroabout the social and political crisis in Peru, for which yesterday, Friday, February 17, the Congress of Peru declared him “persona non grata”.

In press statements, the head of state “very regretted” that “some presidents and, in this case, the president Colombia to have these sad statements for Peru, even knowing […] political situation that we are experiencing, and from the outside to continue to call on the Peruvian population.”

“We reject any kind of intervention in our history, from here I tell Mr. (Gustavo) Petro to devote himself to governing Colombia, whose streets are also filled with protests, and let us Peruvians solve ours,” he said. .

Since December 7, 2022, after the failed coup d’état by Pedro Castillo and the accession of Dina Boluarte to the presidency of Peru, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro He has come out in defense of the now-imprisoned former president, in addition to attacking the current administration.

The drop that broke glass and forced the plenum of Congress to approve the proposal of the Commission on Foreign Relations, which proposed declaring him “persona non grata”, was a recent statement Petro against mass deployment effective Peruvian National Police before marching in downtown Lima, last February 9th. “In Peru they march like Nazisagainst his people,” the head of the Colombian state said.

Congress declares Gustavo Petro persona non grata

Plenary session Congress decision was made to declare the president persona non grata Colombia, Gustavo Petro for his statements against the Peruvian National Police (PNP) in the context of the protests taking place in the country.

The proposal was approved by 72 votes to 29 with 7 abstentions after an hour-long parliamentary debate. The initiative first passed through the Commission on Foreign Relations because the foreign affairs president criticized the massive police deployment ahead of calls for marches in central Lima on February 9.

The proposal also calls on the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs to take the necessary steps to ensure that the President of Colombia “does not enter the country.” The last time Petro was in the country was at a meeting with former President Pedro Castillo at the XXII Andean Presidential Council, held in August last year.

Last December, the plenary session of the Congress approved a proposal that proposed to reject the “permanent and unacceptable” acts of interference in the internal affairs of Peru by Colombian Presidenthis Mexican colleague Andres Manuel López Obrador and other presidents of the region.