Like Will Smith to Chris Rock, the Pedro Castillo Government and Congress have slapped Peru

On Monday night, after more than four hours of useless and shameful debate in the Congress of the Republic, it was decided to reject for the second time the vacancy motion against President Pedro Castillo. It was 55 votes in favor, 54 against and 19 abstentions that gave this government a new respite with serious accusations of having links with an alleged mafia in which the president's nephews, the former secretary of the Government Palace and lobbyist Karelim López are also involved.

The political analyst, Oscar Díaz, spoke about it and said that yesterday “we have all lost, especially all our time”.

“Yesterday was an inconsequential session, to oblivion. There was no issue that had to do with the real problems that Peru has. At the moment we have a transport strike, it is a month since workers and families in Cuajone, the third largest mine in Peru, have no water, the railway line continues to be interrupted and the problem in Las Bambas continues to be interrupted. Peru's first oil company, which is PetroTal, is interrupted and I wonder was anything of this that I just mentioned mentioned in Congress yesterday?” , he said worriedly.

“I thought that, based on Will Smith's famous slap to Chris Rock, Congress and the Executive really slapped Peru yesterday, because they said 'I don't care about your problems, I'm interested in what I want and what I want is to vacate the president'. It was an unnecessary, sterile and useless waste of time,” the political analyst stressed.

He assured that Castillo was entrusted to Congress, because he had the votes that would allow him to remain in power, especially with the support he has from Vladimir Cerrón, “who gives him the strength that allows him to manage the four ministries he has now. He will continue to handle the scales in his favor.”

On the vacancy motion, he argued that it had no weighty arguments and it happened as the first time, that it was a hasty constitutional accusation. “He didn't have any real sustenance for the vacancy due to moral incapacity, so we are making a role that wears out and the figure of vacancy is losing all credibility. For much less, PPK had to resign and for much less, because of an alleged statement by an effective collaborator, Martín Vizcarra was vacated”

“On the other hand, there are a series of suspicious events here such as the Sarratea meetings that existed, the agenda that the president, the nephews, his secretary general, Karelim Lopez, do not want to present. I mean, it's a never-ending list, but Congress is a shame, the opposition on good account is the best thing that ever happened to Pedro Castillo,” said Díaz.

He added that after this second stage, what is coming will only further undress the mediocrity of this government. “I am very afraid that the government will continue to be mediocre as it was 8 months ago, it will continue to fall in popularity, since 8 out of 10 Peruvians disapprove of the government and Congress and I think that the fact that “everyone will leave” is approaching and the only thing that will make Castillo leave the government is going to be his ineptitude and the people when they decide to go out at streets”

“Already the transport stoppage, inflation, plus the ineptitude of the government, the rise in bread and the shortage that will be seen in the second half of the year, I think are going to be the triggers that will show in all its nakedness the incapacity, not moral, but that of the president's government and his environment,” he concluded.

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