PCM did not know the proposal for a new Constitution announced by Pedro Castillo, according to Minister of Health

Yesterday in Cusco, President Pedro Castillo announced that he will send a bill to the Congress of the Republic so that, during This year's Municipal and Regional Elections, a referendum will be consulted to determine whether or not the population agrees with the change of Constitution.

“We are going to send a bill to the Congress of the Republic, following the constitutional course, so that in these upcoming Municipal and Regional Elections, the Congress of the Republic will approve this bill so that the Peruvian people will also be consulted, through a charter, whether they agree with a new Constitution” , said the president before the conclusion of the Sixth Decentralized Council of Ministers.

However, this would have been a decision that the president did not consult with his Council of Ministers (PCM), as revealed by the head of the Health portfolio, Jorge Lopez. “We were in evaluations, but we still didn't have anything concrete,” he told Exitosa from the district of San Martín de Porres in a vaccination campaign.

According to López, what President Castillo raised was an announcement that took everyone in the PCM by surprise. “The only thing we have to see is that, if there is ever a referendum to be reached, it is the people who have to decide,” he added.

“It is simply a referendum, in the end it will be the people who will make the decisions. (...) Yesterday the president spoke. We are in a democratic country and it is the people who make the decisions. The people are the leading voice in our country (...) Yesterday the population was also asking for the closure of the Congress, I think we should evaluate that, define it”, he stressed.

NOW IT'S UP TO CONGRESS

For the Minister of Culture, Alejandro Salas, it is now up to the Congress of the Republic to evaluate the proposal announced by the president. He also indicated that we should not “be afraid” of citizens expressing their feelings.

“It will be up to the Congress of the Republic to evaluate it. What we should never be afraid of, as Democrats and as Peruvians, is that the people, citizens and citizens will express themselves at the polls. They will be the ones who finally decide,” he said.

Salas considered that, if Parliament and the Executive Power understand each other, “Peru will do well”. “Both branches of government have been elected for five years. Peru will do well if both powers understand each other. I think that as Democrats we have to seek that both powers meet to work for the country,” he said.

“People don't just ask for the Executive, they ask for the work of the Legislative Branch, the Judiciary, the country's institutions. I believe that united as Peruvians we will be able to move this forward. We're going to work for that,” he added.

Finally, he stressed that “all public servants are in absolute evaluation. We have to review absolutely all the objectives, the goals that have been met or not, the needs of the population, of the sectors and on that basis we can see the results and be able to work on whether there are changes or there will be no changes”.

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