Boluarte does not rule out that the elections in Peru will be brought forward to 2023

MADRID, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, has not ruled out that the early elections called for 2024 could be held a year earlier and has announced that she will speak with Congress to try to "shorten the deadlines", while protests continue throughout the country in support of the Former President Pedro Castillo.

Boluarte has explained that he needs to coordinate with Congress to announce the call for elections before being able to set a date, so he is already talking with the constitutional commission of the Chamber to see to what extent it is possible to reduce the deadlines.

"This government will be in transition to call for calm, dialogue and work together," has settled Boluarte, who is celebrating a week as the first president in the history of Peru after being sworn in for the arrest and accusation of Castillo for an alleged crime of rebellion that will keep him in prison until this Wednesday.

Some sectors of the country have ordered Boluarte to move forward with the call for elections as soon as possible due to the umpteenth political crisis facing the country, with strong mobilizations and protests that have already left six dead and the announcement to remove the Armed Forces from the street.

"We are in a political crisis and we understand that we have to act quickly," said Luis Villanueva, president of the CGTP, Peru's main union, after meeting on Tuesday at the National Palace with Boluarte, whom he asked to step forward. front because 2024 "is too late".

The main challenge is to see how to cut those deadlines. According to the law, elections are called 270 days in advance. Among the alternatives is advancing the next legislature to January 2023 to ratify, in a second vote, the constitutional reform that endorses calling these long-awaited elections.

Meanwhile, the protests continue and will have a new episode this Wednesday after former President Castillo has called his followers to come and meet him when he leaves the detention center in Lima, where he has been for a week when he was Arrested after unsuccessfully trying to take refuge in the Mexican Embassy after announcing the dissolution of Congress.

However, Castillo could go back to prison if the judicial authorities approve the demands of the Prosecutor's Office, which on this occasion have requested up to 18 months in prison for him while the investigation is carried out.