The OAS expresses its concern for democracy in Peru

Thousands of kilometers from Peru, which this Wednesday lived dizzying hours, the Organization of American States (OAS) He improvised a session on the crisis to express “concern”, censure the “alteration of the constitutional order” and keep his hand outstretched to dialogue.

“What happened today in Peruwhen dissolving Pedro Castillo the Congress of the Republic, without a constitutional, legal or normative basis, constitutes an alteration of the constitutional order.” said in Washington the OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro.

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The leftist president he ordered parliament to dissolve in an attempt to avoid being removed from office.

It was in vain. Congress, controlled by the right, did not comply and dismissed him.

“The Peru demonstrated today a commendable adherence to the Constitution, Peru continues to need dialogue, it continues to need consensus, it continues to need a vision of the State”, he added almagroshortly before Peruvian Vice President Dina Boluarte took the reins of the country.

At the request of Castlethe OAS built bridges between the Executive and the Legislature by sending a high-level group to the country in November that recommended “a political truce” while seeking to “channel a formal dialogue.”

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In fact A special session on this high-level group was scheduled for Thursday.

The Peruvian ambassador to the OAS, Harold Forsyth Mejía, was rushing the negotiations in the corridors in search of a resolution to present at the session when he learned of the events in Lima.

Minutes later he resigned in full Permanent Council ordinary protest against the “rupture” of the constitutional order and to disassociate themselves from the government.

In the afternoon, the Permanent Council, the executive body, held a special session on Peru.

In it, the representatives of Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Antigua and Barbuda, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Costa Rica asked for the floor to demand respect for the constitutional order.

The US representative clearly positioned himself on the side of Congress, as the State Department spokesman did, ned pricewho called Castillo “former president” hours before the swearing in of Vice President Dina Boluarte as head of state.

“We congratulate the Peruvian civil institutions and authorities for ensuring democratic stability and we will continue to support Peru in its progress towards the restoration of democratic order”said the US representative to the OAS, Thomas R. Hastings.

Bolivia and Colombia were the only ones that expressed nuances.

The Bolivian ambassador to the OAS, Héctor Arce, affirmed that the day offers two lessons.

First, “we cannot deny the constant conspiracy and the constant rejection of a popular section government,” he said, referring to Castillo’s.

“It is not the first time and we hope it will be the last in which a popular government, an indigenous government (…) is deeply rejected by the political order, by the established order and its constant overthrow is sought,” he added.

“Truth and good faith”

Arce stressed that it is “a constant situation of attempt to destabilize democracy, at the head of a president of commoner origin.”

But “nothing, absolutely nothing justifies a constitutional break,” he said. This is the second teaching, he said.

Colombia, for its part, suggested a defense of Castillo when advocating for the respect of the popular will expressed in the vote.

Ambassador Luis Ernesto Vargas summed it up by saying: “Just as we reject any attack that exists against democracy, we also call for respect for that democratic expression that was already seen at the polls,” who “expressed so much for the appointment of the president of Peru as well as for the appointment of democratic representatives in Congress”.

All participants reiterated the importance of dialogue and seemed reluctant to write off the recommendations of the high-level panel.

“The lost opportunity that were the recommendations of the high-level group, let’s hope they are not new wasted opportunities,” said Almagro, insisting that the general secretariat is willing to “continue working with the institutional authorities and all sectors.”

But dialogue, according to the Colombian ambassador, must commune with “truth and good faith.” “Without good faith we would not know what to expect.”

Source: Elcomercio

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