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The government of Uruguay expressed that it condemnsstrongly” any “attempt to break the constitutional order” of the Republic of Peru and made a call to “respect democratic institutions” in that country.
This was stated by the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry through a brief statement in which the River Plate country indicated that it trusts that the swearing in of the president Dina Boluarte by the Congress of Peru “leads to guaranteeing political stability and the preservation of the rule of law” in the Andean nation.
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“Given the political crisis that the Republic of Peru is going through, the Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay calls for respect for democratic institutions and (…) trusts in the prompt and normal functioning of the republican government institutions”, stressed the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Executive of the center-right Luis Lacalle Pou.
The lawyer and politician of leftist tradition Dina Boluarte became the first female president of Peru this Wednesday, when she was sworn in before the plenary session of Congress, after Parliament dismissed Pedro Castillo, accused of carrying out a coup d’état.
boluarte60 years old and of whose personal life not many details are known, was elected as the first vice president of the Republic in the presidential formula of the Marxist party Perú Libre, which last year nominated Pedro Castillo to the head of state of the country, and from which she was expelled due to political differences with its leaders.
The new president was Minister of Development and Social Inclusion from the beginning of the Castillo governmenton July 28, 2021, until the end of November, when the political scenario worsened with the confirmation that Congress was going to submit the former president to a third motion for dismissal for “permanent moral incapacity.”
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After the announcement of the closure of Congress by Castillo, boluarte broke his silence to reject the decision of “perpetrate the breakdown of the constitutional order” and added that it was “a coup d’état that aggravates the political and institutional crisis that Peruvian society will have to overcome with strict adherence to the law.”
In this way, the lawyer stopped publicly supporting Castle And with her appointment as head of state, she corrected herself from what she had announced last year, when she declared that if the then president was removed, she would go with him.
Source: Elcomercio
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