At the age of 60, the new head of state replaced Pedro Castillo following the self-coup attempt that ended in his dismissal.
After the self-coup attempt by Pedro Castillothe Congress of Peru advanced the session and approved the presidential vacancy by an overwhelming majority of 101 votes in favor, six once morest and ten abstentions.
Given this decision, the person who assumed the presidency of the Republic was Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra, the first woman in the position in the history of the country.
President Boluarte assumes the reins of the country in the midst of a political crisis, further aggravated by a powerful drought that is hitting the Andes, a fifth wave of infections due to the pandemic and a flu that has killed thousands of birds on the Pacific coast.
Dina Boluarte resume
Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra was born in Chalhuanca, in Apurímac, and at the age of 60 she became the first president of the Republic of Peru. She is a lawyer by profession with more than 18 years of experience and has a master’s degree in Registry and Notarial Law from the San Martín de Porres University. Likewise, she has diplomas in Administrative Law and Public Management.
Before assuming the vice presidency of the Republic, she worked as a lawyer in the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) since 2007, but in 2021 she submitted a request to accompany Pedro Castillo in the general elections. However, she was denied, but she did not relinquish her position because she argued that she might return to the entity.
Currently, she serves as president of the Apurímac Departmental Club in Lima, as well as the first vice president of the Departmental Clubs of Peru. She too, she has been welfare director of the Lima Bar Association.
The first female president of Peru was already entering politics when she was a candidate for mayor of Surquillo in 2018, but did not win the elections. This is how, in 2020, she participates in congressional races without success. Boluarte would continue in this process to get to politics.
In 2021, when Pedro Castillo won the elections, she assumed the vice presidency of the Republic for the Peru Libre party, an organization led by Vladimir Cerrón. Since then, she has served as Minister of Development and Social Inclusion in four consecutive Cabinets.
However, given the rejection of the question of confidence in the Cabinet of Aníbal Torres, Betssy Chávez assumes the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. This is how Dina Boluarte announced through her social networks her resignation from being a portfolio. From that moment on, she cut herself off from the government of Pedro Castillo.
questioning
On December 5, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress approved the filing of the constitutional complaint once morest Dina Boluarte. This report had a majority vote to the report of legislator Edgard Reymundo.
The now President of the Republic was constitutionally denounced for having infringed crimes of abuse of authority, omission of functional acts and incompatible negotiation. However, the report indicated that the then she did not commit an irregular action.
“It has not been determined that the resignation process presented by Mrs. Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra before RENIEC has been irregular and therefore that article 126 of the Constitution has been violated,” it was read.
Rejected self-coup
The now President of the Republic rejected the decision of Pedro Castillo for “perpetrating the breakdown of the constitutional order.” “This is a coup d’état that aggravates the political and institutional crisis that Peruvian society will have to overcome with strict adherence to the law,” the vice president wrote on her social media.
This is how Dina Boluarte was sworn in by Congress as the new head of state. In the next few days, she will meet her Ministerial Cabinet.
“Being aware of the enormous responsibility that falls to me, my first invocation, how might it be otherwise, is to summon the broadest unity of all Peruvians. Gentlemen, talk, dialogue, how to agree (is) something as simple as it is so impracticable in recent months “, were the first statements of the president.
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