The The Peruvian government declared this Tuesday persona non grata the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, and gave him 72 hours to leave the country. According to reports, the decision was made in response to the “interference” that the Mexican “high authorities” consider to have been made in the internal affairs of Peru.
(In context: Peru expels the Mexican ambassador for “interference” by its authorities).
Given the determination of the Andean country, the Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, described the expulsion of the ambassador from Peru as an “unfounded and reprehensible” decision of his country in Lima, Pablo Monroy, and assured that Mexico “will not change its position.”
In addition, through a message on Twitter, Ebrard defended Monroy’s actions, because, in his opinion, “she has been attached to the law and to the principle of non-intervention.”
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It should be remembered that, since last Thursday, The Peruvian Foreign Ministry conveyed its rejection of Monroy, considering it as “interference in internal affairs” the expressions of the Mexican authorities, following the former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo tried to carry out a self-coup and requested asylum in Mexico.
“The expressions of the Mexican authorities constitute an interference in the internal affairs of Peru and are not consistent with the events that have occurred in recent days.“, said the Peruvian Foreign Minister, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, on that occasion.
Despite the disagreements between the authorities of both countries, this Tuesday, Mexico confirmed that it granted political asylum to Lilia Paredes, wife of former President Castilloand their children, who received the same day the safe-conduct from the Peruvian Foreign Ministry to leave the country to Aztec territory.
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When will the elections be in Peru?
In the midst of the diplomatic crisis between Peru and Mexico, the congress of the Inca country approved a project to advance general elections in the country for April 2024with the objective that the mandate of the current authorities of the Executive and the Legislative conclude at the end of July of that year and not in the same month of 2026.
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The project, which was presented by the president of the Constitutional Commission of Congress, the Fujimori Hernando Guerra, received 93 votes in favor, 30 once morest and 1 abstentionin a first vote that must be endorsed in the next ordinary legislature.
Thus, the mandate of the current president Dina Boluarte, the 130 congressmen and the representatives to the Andean Parliament would end on July 28, 2024 and the legislators two days before, on July 26.
EFE
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