Pedro Castillo: eight months of government and the permanent political crisis that could provoke his departure from power today

Pedro Castillo is now eight months after taking office as President of the Republic and is doing so by facing a new presidential vacancy and a series of questions about his management that he has not wanted to answer and has left more doubts than certainties about their suitability to remain in office. Today, the president will appear before Congress where he will exercise his defense against the accusations of corruption, bribery and other crimes that are accused of him.

But before its presentation, we review these eight months of government and why Castillo Terrones fails to get rid of the storm that started from day one when the presidential band started.

Infobae Peru spoke with political analyst Luis Benavente, who argued that Pedro Castillo is primarily responsible for this political and economic instability that is currently being experienced in the country.

“There has been a lot of political and economic instability and I think that the main factor of instability in the country is President Pedro Castillo, who has never had the intention or purpose of providing political stability in the country. Since assuming the presidency, he has made a continuous appointment of officials with a lot of questions, judicial and police records,” he said.

He also analyzed the behavior of the first cabinet of ministers, where the head of the PCM was Guido Bellido and other officials who have been accused of advocating terrorism before and after the death of Abimael Guzmán, because during a Council of Ministers they refused to touch on the subject of the death of the bloody leader of the Shining Path.

“The congressmen were advocating terrorism, an example of this was when Abimael Guzmán died, a large number of their ministers voted against the cremation of their remains, which clearly expresses the sympathy of these gentlemen towards the shining path,” he said.

“Then there are questioned ministers, medical associations that disagree with the appointment of the Minister of Health (Hernán Condori). There are many other cases of characters that the president has maintained despite criticism. He hasn't listened to the people, he hasn't considered the opposition, he doesn't listen and that generates too great instability,” he said.

THERE ARE NO INTENTIONS OF GOVERNANCE

For the specialist, what has been happening since Castillo assumed the role of the presidency of the country, is the clear lack of governance, which reflects that there would be a double discourse in this administration.

“All this generates social and economic instability. Let's just say that the government's purpose of intention is very clear. Initially, they tried to close mines under the pretext of ecological care, when at the same time the government made alliances with coca growers and illegals, when we know that these actions are very serious for the environment. On the other hand, this has meant that there are no new jobs in Peru, no investments and that the economy stagnates. In the labor sector, these eight months have been very negative for the country,” he analyzed.

“Recently, five Peruvian banks have lost points in the rating category. The country is at higher risk, but the government is not interested in political and economic stability, what it is interested in is creating chaos and there is a very obvious position that it wants a completely authoritarian project and that is the battle that the opposition will fight and that is reflected in the 77 votes they have achieved in the admission of vacancia against Pedro Castillo,” Benavente added.

PRESIDENTIAL VACANCY

For Luis Benavente, alliances are being formed in Congress prior to the vote on admission of vacancy. However, the “plus point” towards Castillo is that he has a political party that supports him compared to Martín Vizcarra when he was removed from government.

“It is known that Congress would be negotiating votes with benefits granted to congressmen, which has already been discovered on several occasions. On the other hand, I don't think the opposition is sitting idly by and here comes an analysis: compared to Vizcarra who didn't have a bench, Castillo does and that is playing in its favor right now. If they vacate the president, a new problem begins for Peru and if they don't vacate it, there will also be another problem, because it would be a political victory that would pay a rather high price,” said the political analyst.

“The best thing for the country is a resignation, which would be better than a vacancy. However, let's remember that Castillo has a match behind him with more than 30 members and despite that, he is holding it,” he told Infobae Peru.

DINA BOLUARTE

If they were to vacate Pedro Castillo today, Vice President Dina Boluarte would take office, but , are you really ready for this great challenge?

Luis Benavente mentions that Boluarte has not had professional training and this would create a great challenge for her, but it is believed that “she could even do better, as long as she surrounds herself with great professionals and cleans up the image of the Council of Ministers”.

“Dina Boluarte came to the presidency on an incomplete electoral plate that had no chance of anything. They simply put the current president there because the party had no expectations with the presidency or vice presidency. This has been practically a fortuitous event, which is why they (Free Peru) have not looked for prepared people. Vladimir Cerrón never thought that Pedro Castillo could become president. Boluarte is finally there and I honestly don't see that he has come up with great preparation. He does not have a professional career, he is a person who has done administrative work but does not have extensive professional knowledge, nor has he had a great academic and intellectual experience in any field, but sometimes politicians can do a good job if they know how to surround themselves with highly professional qualified,” he said.

She also stressed that “Boluarte would have a very valuable opportunity, which is to become the first female president of Peru, that would be something unprecedented and the only challenge she would have is to do things well and surround herself with people who really want to continue working.”

However, Castillo Terrones will have to convince Parliament today so that the request for vacancia does not achieve the votes that the opposition needs to leave the Government Palace.

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