Guillermo Bermejo after the transport strike: “Constituent Assembly to re-found the country”

The congressman of Democratic Peru, Guillermo Bermejo, spoke on his social networks about a new constitution via a Constituent Assembly, the social conflicts that are taking place at the national level could be brought to an end, owing to the stoppage of heavy - cargo transport. In addition, he argued that they are the product of “the monsters that subjugated our homeland” since the independence of Peru.

“Constituent Assembly to re-found the country. So that all voices are heard, so that all dreams are achieved, so that we live a real democracy. The time is today to end the social conflicts inherited to us by monsters, who subjugated our homeland 200 years of republican life,” Bermejo said.

Heavy cargo carriers are demanding solutions to their demands from the government of President Pedro Castillo, which last Thursday minimized the measures of force and accused leaders of financing them.

“We know that there are urgent demands to be addressed, but it will be difficult to resolve them without the will for dialogue and purpose of amendment. Brothers transporters, I pledge to seek solutions together for the benefit of all,” the president said in a tweet last Friday, the day when looting and demonstrations were reported in Huancayo following the blockade of roads.

In addition, it provided a solution to buy 'what Peru needs' from Venezuela, comparing it to other countries, such as the United States, which stand in long queues to access its oil.

“The fertilizer crisis can be solved by buying from Venezuela. It is the only country that has the capacity to sell what Peru urgently needs and at the best price. If even American ships line up to buy oil at Venezuelan refineries, there should be no pretext for buying urea from the Bolivarian Republic. It is a matter of political decision,” he said.

ANÍBAL TORRES AT A PRESS CONFERENCE

The president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, along with other ministers of state held a press conference this morning at headquarters of the Government Palace, for the purpose of reporting on the agreements that were reached at the dialogue table in Huancayo, following the incidents in that region.

“The Executive agreed on various agreements with representatives of the transport and agricultural sectors to give impetus to the development of the central region of the country”, the PCM communication reads.

The conference takes place on the same date when the resignation of the Minister of Health, Hernán Condori, was accepted, and it was determined that the exonerate from the selective tax consumption (ISC) to 84- and 90-octane gasoline.

In addition, during the conference, each minister gave his point of view on what happened and reported on what was being done to end this stoppage of carriers.

GOVERNMENT AGREEMENTS

It has been six days since the strike of heavy cargo carriers began, since it was on Monday, March 28. They called for a solution to the increase in fuel prices, the elimination of the Selective Consumption Tax (ISC), among other measures.

This Saturday, the Government managed to conclude and sign minutes of dialogue with leaders of transport and agriculture after the frictionalized and divided table that was installed in the Wanka Coliseum, in Huancayo. It was reported that the signed minutes were negotiated at different dialogue tables within the coliseum, where carriers and farmers reached important partial agreements, such as the upcoming unblocking of roads in Junín.

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