PRESIDENTA? Dina Boluarte is set that way become first female president of Peru after arrest of Pedro Castillo for trying to overturn constitution

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Dina Boluarte is set that way become first female president of Peru after arrest of Pedro Castillo.

Castillo was arrested this Wednesday after his country’s Congress dismissed him for announcing hours before the dissolution of the Chamber and the establishment of an “exception government.”

“The Public Ministry this afternoon directed the arrest of Pedro Castillo Terrones for the alleged crime of rebellion, regulated in article 346 of the Penal Code, for violating the constitutional order,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.

Events precipitated after the president made the unexpected announcement, which was described as a “coup” by representatives of the entire political spectrum.

The PNP confirmed on its Twitter account that Castillo is in one of its offices in Lima together with the prosecutor Patricia Benavides and other officials.

“In compliance with our powers and powers described in article 5 of DL No. 1267 of the Peruvian National Police Law, PNP troops intervene with former President Pedro Castillo,” the institution reported in a tweet that was later deleted.

The released images showed Castillo in the prefecture together with the prosecutor and other police and judicial officials.

Subsequently, Boluarte was sworn in as the new President of the Republic , the first woman to hold the position in Peru.

In his first message to the nation, he rejected the “coup attempt” by Castillo , which, he said, did not “find an echo in the institutions of democracy and in the street.”

” I request a political truce to install a government of national unity. This high responsibility must be assumed by everyone”, he assured.

“It is up to us to talk, dialogue, reach an agreement, something as simple as it is impracticable in recent months. I therefore call for a broad process of dialogue between all the political forces represented or not in Congress.”

Boluarte announced that his first measure is to initiate a fight against corruption in State institutions, for which he requested the support of the National Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office to “enter corrupt institutions without half measures.”

Vice President Dina Boluarte replaced Pedro Castillo and became the first female leader in the history of the republic after hours of wrangling between the legislature and the departing president, who had tried to prevent an impeachment vote.

Boluarte, a 60–year-old lawyer, called for a political truce and the installation of a national unity government.

“What I ask for is a space, a time to rescue the country,” she said.

Lawmakers voted 101-6 with 10 abstentions to remove Castillo from office for reasons of “permanent moral incapacity.”

He left the presidential palace in an automobile that carried him through Lima’s historic downtown. He entered a police station and hours later federal prosecutors announced that Castillo had been arrested on the rebellion charge for allegedly violating constitutional order. Witnesses saw some small-scale clashing between police and some protesters who had gathered near the station.

Fluent in Spanish and Quechua, Boluarte was elected as vice president on the presidential ticket that brought the center-left Castillo to power July 28, 2021. During Castillo’s brief administration, Boluarte was minister of development and social inclusion.

Shortly before the impeachment vote, Castillo announced that he was installing a new emergency government and would rule by decree. He ordered a nightly curfew starting Wednesday night. The head of Peru’s army then resigned, along with four ministers, including those over foreign affairs and the economy.

The Ombudsman’s Office, an autonomous government institution, said before the congressional vote that Castillo should turn himself in to judicial authorities.

After years of democracy, Peru is in the midst of a constitutional collapse “that can’t be called anything but a coup,” the statement said.

International reaction was at times outpaced by events.

United States Amb. Lisa Kenna called on Castillo via Twitter to reverse his decree to dissolve Congress, saying the U.S. government rejected any “extra-constitutional” actions by the president to interfere with Congress.

A short time later the Congress voted to remove Castillo.

Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said via Twitter that given recent events in Peru, Mexico had decided to postpone the Pacific Alliance summit scheduled for Dec. 14 in Lima. He said he regretted the recent developments and called for democracy and human rights to be respected.

The administration of Chilean President Gabriel Boric lamented the political situation in Peru and trusted that the crisis would be resolved through democratic mechanisms. Spain’s government strongly condemned the break in constitutional order and congratulated the country on righting itself democratically.

Castillo had said in an unusual midnight address on state television ahead of the vote that he would never stain “the good name of my honest and exemplary parents, who like millions of Peruvians, work every day to build honestly a future for their families.”

The peasant-turned-president said he’s paying for mistakes made due to inexperience. But he said a certain sector of Congress “has as its only agenda item removing me from office because they never accepted the results of an election that you, my dear Peruvians, determined with your votes.”

Castillo has denied allegations of corruption against him, saying they’re based on “hearsay statements by people who, seeking to lighten their own punishments for supposed crimes by abusing my confidence, are trying to involve me without evidence.”

From Chile , the Foreign Ministry said that it “deeply regrets the situation” and called for a prompt solution.

Argentina said through its Foreign Ministry that it “regrets and expresses its deep concern about the political crisis” and called “on all political and social actors to safeguard democratic institutions, the rule of law and constitutional order.”

The US embassy in Lima expressed its rejection of “any extra – constitutional act by President Castillo to prevent Congress from fulfilling its mandate.”

The rapid escalation in the political situation in Peru generated diverse reactions throughout the continent.

The president of Mexico , Andrés Manuel López Obrador , expressed on Twitter: “We consider it unfortunate that for the interests of the economic and political elites, since the beginning of the legitimate presidency of Pedro Castillo, an environment of confrontation and hostility has been maintained against him. until leading him to make decisions that have served his adversaries to consummate his dismissal with the sui generis precept of ‘moral incapacity'”.

Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that Mexico could receive it. “We have a policy in favor of asylum. If he asks for it, we shouldn’t oppose him, but he hasn’t,” he told reporters.