According to several of the participants in El Comercio, the main frictions occurred around the acts of political control of Parliament and an initiative that is being discussed in this forum: the advancement of elections.
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“I felt the most tense moment when they hinted that we are questioning, interpellating, censoring. They were Minister Alejandro Salas and the Prime Minister,” Martha Moyano, first vice president of Parliament, told this newspaper. Alejandro Muñante, third vice president, maintained that Roberto Sánchez, head of the Mincetur, also questioned actions of political control and noted that another tense passage occurred “when he was asked to [al presidente] choose your ministers well. And that it does not further incite the population in the decentralized councils of ministers”.
Meanwhile, Moyano and Muñante pointed out that Castillo intervened “very little” in the meeting. “Only the protocol part and he gave his ministers a pass,” the first referred and said he did not remember anything outstanding mentioned by the president. Her colleague added that the head of state only participated “to give general information, which must be arranged, and she thanked him for the permission to travel abroad.”
On the other hand, at a press conference following the meeting, Digna Calle, second vice president of the Legislative Branch, stressed that -during the dialogue- she came to the fore before “a comment made by one of the ministers regarding the vacancy, the advancement of elections , he says it’s destabilizing them and it’s also destabilizing our country.” In his turn, Williams added: “We talked regarding the independence of powers. We told them that it is very important that there is no interference.”
In this regard, the Minister of Labor, Alejandro Salas, admitted in brief statements to El Comercio that he first addressed the issues of a possible presidential vacancy and the advancement of elections at the meeting. “They stated that the crisis was not generated by them, but that Congress reacted to the wrong designations with its political control. The answer given to them at that time was that they are positions of trust. We ask that you evaluate it objectively. There are errors that are recognized and that are part of the experience curve that is trying to be corrected, ”he added.
In private
Although the meeting lasted almost an hour and a half, this newspaper was also able to learn that Castillo and Willams met momentarily in private. The head of Parliament did not comment on the matter at his press conference, but he did mention that three file cabinets with 77 laws pending regulation by said State power were delivered to the Executive.
The private appointment between the highest authorities of the Executive and Legislative lasted approximately 10 minutes. “In the end, the president [Castillo] He asked her to talk in private. The president gave him [al titular del Parlamento] a document called Consensus for Peru. The entire meeting was in the office of the president of Congress. Then, we went out and stayed in an anteroom to the office and the two stayed in the congressman’s office in private,” explained one of the sources consulted.
According to the sources, the Executive planned a next meeting in at least two weeks, but this time with Williams visiting Castillo at the Government Palace. They also limited that towards the end of the appointment, Moyano chose not to participate in part of the protocol photos. Until the closing of this edition, none of the institutions broadcast images of the meeting.
The Consensus for Peru document consists of four pages. These are proposals from the Executive on seven thematic axes: political stability and constitutional reform; fight once morest citizen insecurity and reform in the administration of justice; reactivation and economic growth; mitigation of an adverse scenario on fuel and grain prices in the world economy; fight once morest corruption, drug trafficking and terrorism; mitigate high interest on mortgage and consumer loans; and foreign policy.
In the first point, the government asks Parliament to prioritize the regulation of the question of trust and the presidential vacancy due to moral incapacity, as well as to analyze the context of the viability of the bicameral system.
Finally, at a press conference, this newspaper consulted Torres on the Executive’s current position on the advancement of elections, considering that it was a proposal that —according to what he announced— was regarding to be presented to Congress last March. The head of the PCM did not respond, but Salas assured: “We found in the president of Congress that he did not have a policy on the agenda that all leave, except for a presidential vacancy.”
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— The meeting, which had tense moments around parliamentary actions of political control, took place a day following Congress censured Geiner Alvarado as Minister of Transportation. In addition, Avanza País aims to present a motion this Monday that seeks the dismissal of Willy Huerta as head of the Mininter.
— President Pedro Castillo was received in Congress by congressmen Pasión Dávila, Katy Ugarte and Segundo Quiroz, from the Magisterial Bloc.
— In addition to the head of the Cabinet Aníbal Torres, the ministers César Landa (Foreign Relations), Félix Chero (Justice and Human Rights), Kurt Burneo (Economy), Roberto Sánchez (Foreign Trade and Tourism) and Alejandro Salas (Labor) attended the Parliament .