AMLO calls for general elections in Peru “to restore democratic order”

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)said this Monday that the way out of the political crisis that Peru is going through after the removal of President Pedro Castillo is a call for general elections in the short or medium term.

“Now what is being requested (in Peru) is that elections be called. I respectfully believe that it is the best thing to do to stop the confrontation. That it be the people who freely decide both the situation of Congress and the Presidency, that elections be called soon. I am sure that if it is called in the short or medium term, things will calm down, because there will be a way out. and the people will be able to choose and restore the democratic order”, AMLO said in his program every morning.

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“This is how the democratic order, legality, is restored. I don’t see any other possibility. But if they are clinging to the fact that Congress and the president are going to be maintained, and that they are going to achieve everything with the use of force, with repression, then there is going to be a lot of suffering in the town and a lot of instability.” followed.

“They want to rule by force with bayonets, but with bayonets anything is possible except sitting on them,” he said.

Pedro Castillo He was arrested on December 7 after being dismissed by Congress shortly after he announced the closure of Congress, the formation of an emergency Executive, which was going to govern by decree and reorganize the justice system, which was described as a Coup attempt.

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Source: Elcomercio

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