‘He’s politically responsible’: Cathy Ugarte asks for censorship of home secretary for ‘abuse’ at protests

congresswoman Cathy Ugarte justified the vote of no confidence he is bringing against the Minister of the Interior, Vincent Romerowhom he accuses of “political responsibility for the abuse of power” during the past police intervention in National University of San Marcos happened on January 21st.

A vote of no confidence put forward Cathy Ugarte, has the support of a group of congressmen from different benches. Although the request relates to a police operation carried out in University of San MarcosThe parliamentarian also criticized the minister for the deaths that occurred during the protests.

“I think that there must be political leaders where 60 deaths of brothers in the interior of the country cannot go unpunished (…) There must be guilty people here, we cannot look from afar where the executive power, and specifically the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is responsible for all this on them. It is they who give the orders, and we, as the Legislative Assembly, do our job of political control,” he said.

Ugarte mentioned that, as in the aforementioned study house, there were acts of abuse of power in different parts of the country where protests took place, about which the Minister Vincent Romero He was unable to answer, even when he appeared before Parliament to defend himself.

“There are situations where you have to take on that responsibility; moreover, it has a political cost, and it is fair that the population also sees the political control that we exercise. Congress must respond to all of this. Certainly. , the prosecutor’s office will start its investigation work, but the legislature (also) is doing its job,” he said.

When asked about the intentions of her former bank Free Peru After being questioned by Education Minister Oscar Becerra, the parliamentarian denied that they intended to “knock down” all the ministers of the government she leads. Dina Boluarte.

“We do not follow this path, but there are situations (…) The Minister of Education did not fulfill his duties properly because textbooks did not reach educational institutions and he did not answer for budget cuts to maintain unreliable institutions,” he asked .

Vote of no confidence in the Minister of the Interior

A group of congressmen from different benches moved a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of the Interior, Vincent Romerowhom they accuse of “political responsibility for the abuse of power” during the past police intervention in National University of San Marcos happened on January 21st.

<<Condemn Mr. Vicente Romero Fernandez, Minister of the Interior, holding him politically responsible for the abuse of power and disproportionate use of force by the Peruvian National Police during the intervention carried out at the National University of the Mayor of San Marcos in connection with January 21, 2023, demonstrating a lack of leadership and unsuitability to lead the sector under its jurisdiction,” the petition reads.

The document, promoted by congressman outside the group Cathy Ugarte (a former member of Peru Libre), was signed by several lawmakers who support it, including Edgar Tello, Valdemar Cerrón, Victor Kutipa, Kelly Portalatino, Paul Gutierrez, Maria Aguero, Nieves Limachi. , Flavio Cruz, Susel Paredes, Esdras Medina (“We are Peru”) and others.

Among its arguments, the petition recalls that on the morning of Saturday, January 21, police officers entered the territory National University of San Marcos to evict protesters from different regions of the country. They also mentioned that the university rejected an intervention “which caused material damage to infrastructure and caused physical and psychological harm to the community of residents”.

Similarly, they mentioned that at that time the balance prepared Ombudsman with regard to social protest between December 2022 and March 2023, it identified searches that did not comply with the principles of necessity, proportionality, legality and reasonableness, including the police operation carried out at the National University of the Mayor of San Marcos.

Finally, remember that on March 9, Minister Vicente Fernandez appeared before the plenary session of Congress to answer two interpellation papers about this controversial police operation; however, “the answers offered were not satisfactory, nor did they clarify or distort” the questions, which could be indicative of an alleged abuse of power and disproportionate use of force by the police.

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