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General Discussion / Congress was a demand raised
« on: September 04, 2023, 12:23:25 am »
The crisis within the crisis On December 7, when the country was waiting for Congress to discuss the dismissal of Pedro Castillo for the third time, the former president surprised the nation with a message announcing the dissolution of Parliament, the call for new legislative elections, and the objective of advancing in the elaboration of a new Constitution and in the reorganization of the justice system.
Castillo declared that the measures Phone Number List the objective of "establishing the rule of law and democracy." Although the dissolution of from the different quarries that supported the president -as well as from the opposition sectors the removal of the president was encouraged-, this was framed in the Constitution, which allows the president, in certain circumstances, dissolve Congress (as happened with President Martín Vizcarra in 2019). But Castillo's decision was more like a breach of the constitutional order (and many compared it to Alberto Fujimori's 1992 self-coup.
The results of the ill-fated announcement very soon demonstrated that it was an improvised measure and without military support: the different state institutions immediately spoke out against it and, within two hours, after Congress removed him from the position of Expressly, Castillo was detained by his own escort while trying to take refuge in the Mexican embassy with his family. On the same day of the failed "self-coup" attempt, Vice President Dina Boluarte was sworn in as president. It was an act within the framework of constitutional succession.
Castillo declared that the measures Phone Number List the objective of "establishing the rule of law and democracy." Although the dissolution of from the different quarries that supported the president -as well as from the opposition sectors the removal of the president was encouraged-, this was framed in the Constitution, which allows the president, in certain circumstances, dissolve Congress (as happened with President Martín Vizcarra in 2019). But Castillo's decision was more like a breach of the constitutional order (and many compared it to Alberto Fujimori's 1992 self-coup.
The results of the ill-fated announcement very soon demonstrated that it was an improvised measure and without military support: the different state institutions immediately spoke out against it and, within two hours, after Congress removed him from the position of Expressly, Castillo was detained by his own escort while trying to take refuge in the Mexican embassy with his family. On the same day of the failed "self-coup" attempt, Vice President Dina Boluarte was sworn in as president. It was an act within the framework of constitutional succession.