He Congress of the Republic rejected this Thursday evening the petition request against the head of the cabinet, Alberto Otarola.
“Consequently, it goes to the archive,” the parliament said.
The multi-party proposal, with 31 votes in favour, 59 against and 7 abstentions, was for Otarola Peñaranda to attend the plenary session of Parliament to respond to government actions that resulted in Peru being classified as a “non-democratic country”. “.
The document also says that the head of the Council of Ministers “made public statements seeking to stigmatize the mobilized population” and to justify “police and military repression” which is said to have exacerbated the conflict in which the country finds itself. .
“Regarding what is happening in Peru, various organizations have issued statements about the political and social crisis taking place in the country, alerted by the disproportionate use of law enforcement against protesters: the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Union, the Apostolic Nuncio, the Association of Regional governments, the ombudsman, the national human rights coordinator and others,” he says.
New Interpellation Requests
Following the vote, three interpellations were reported against Defense Minister Jorge Chávez Cresta to answer for the deaths of soldiers in Puno, and two more against education chief Oscar Becerra to answer the national inquiry. representation on various issues.
Source: RPP
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