A few days ago, former President Francisco Sagasti reappeared to propose a way out of the political crisis that Peru is going through. In his message, he urged citizens, through the collection of signatures, to request a constitutional amendment to shorten the presidential and congressional period, and to call for new elections to achieve political reform.
His ideas did not go well in the Congress of the Republic, such is the case with the following benches:
PARTIES AGAINST THE ADVANCEMENT OF ELECTIONS
Perú Libre
From the ruling party, its leader and congressmen had harsh qualifications against former president Sagasti for proposing that their term of office be reduced. The leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, said that “the advance of elections to guarantee neoliberal continuity, the same recipe of the March of the Four of Theirs, promoted by NGOs, where the President was changed, but the system and its Constitution were not touched, caviars rose to the ruling class.”
Meanwhile, parliamentarian Guido Bellido called him a “useful fool” for seeking that the people demonstrate through signatures. “Mr. Sagasti, you are nothing but a useful fool of your sponsors the desperate caviars, who are expectorated from the government they illegitimately had. The old strategy of seeking popular support in firms is wrong, because the people already spoke in the elections,” he wrote.
Democratic Peru
The bench of Democratic Peru, which has Congressman Guillermo Bermejo in its ranks, was also against Sagasti's ideas. Through his Twitter account, the former legislator of Peru Libre suggested that the former head of state “lies” because the procedure to promote the advancement of elections would not be as he puts it.
“Sagasti is lying. With 75,000 signatures, there is no referendum. That is for a bill that calls for the advance of elections that would pass by vote in congress, and then only to a referendum. I stopped selling smoke president by accident,” he said.
Popular Renewal
The spokesman for Popular Renewal, Jorge Montoya, criticized Francisco Sagasti's initiative with harsh qualifications. In that sense, he said that “he is very sorry, but ambition is extremely sick and addictive.”
“Shame is what many Peruvians feel about having a climber who came to the palace with tantrums and left in the same way without pain or glory with political conceit that blinded him and made him a de facto disastrous pseudo ruler. Well, now that same person wants to promote constitutional reform to accelerate the presidential and congressional term is very sad, but the ambition is extremely sick and addictive,” he analyzed.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the celestial party, Alejandro Muñante, emphasized that affirming that new elections will solve the political crisis in the country is to pursue a “political slogan”.
“If someone claims that the advance of general elections is the only way out of this crisis, then they are pursuing a political slogan. The structural problem of the country is the institutional crisis. Crisis aggravated by caviars, who, paradoxically, are asking them all to leave today,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
However, the party leader, Rafael López Aliaga, said that Francisco Sagasti's proposal seems interesting to him. “I want to talk to my bench first, but I think it's interesting, it's one more angle. We would have to see if it is constitutional,” he told Panamericana Tv.
Presidency of the Congress
María del Carmen Alva, president of the Congress and member of the Popular Action Bank, also rejected Sagasti's statements and stated that his initiative is very similar to the one mentioned by the Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres.
“It is very similar to the initiative of Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, of the bill that wanted an advance of elections. I think they are in combination, or they have clicked on what they think. (...) It is the opinion of a citizen who wants to collect signatures for it. It is in the Constitution, you can follow its procedure, that will go to the Constitution Committee, to the plenary and it will be seen therei,/i” said the parliamentarian.
“I think that permanent changes do not help the stability of the country definitively, but it is the respectable opinion like any other citizen who wants to present a type of this initiative,” added Alva Prieto.
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