María del Carmen Alva: “In Congress, nobody barricades themselves in their seat and if there have to be elections, there will be”

The president of the Congress, María del Carmen Alva, came out to answer for the controversy that arose after the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, accused Parliament of to distort the bill to exonerate the IGV of basic necessities.

“Upon receiving the autograph of the law, we noticed that Congress distorted the bill, by exonerating the fine loin, goose, pheasant, guinea fowl, imported meat, condensed milk, lasagna, ravioli, among others, which are not part of the basic basket of the poor population,” Pedro's Prime Minister wrote yesterday on Twitter Castle.

Torres says that the aforementioned food that is intended to be exonerated from Congress “creates a budget budget of 3.2 billion soles that will not allow basic services, hospitals, schools, police stations, water and drainage projects, irrigation infrastructure, among others.”

Faced with this statement, Alva acknowledged that this was a mistake “that can be corrected” and that is why this morning the Board of Spokespersons will meet to work on it. However, he regretted the confrontationist attitude of the Government and the criticism received by the legislature.

“Today we are going to see that issue, which is to modify this item and fix the issue [of the law that exonerates the IGV], what cannot be fixed with an article is the misrule and chaos we are experiencing, that is why we all ask the president to step aside,” he stressed.

“In that text it did not expressly say about the exoneration of the goose or the pheasant, but since it is a technical issue, it says “meat”. That can be corrected, there are always observations and they are corrected, it was not necessary that those statements of the premier were given just to disunite,” he added.

“The premier is confrontational when he has to seek consensus, as he is in his last days, how he made statements about Hitler, whom he admires, shameful those statements, he wanted to divert attention,” he said.

He also indicated that “in Congress nobody barricades himself in his seat, nobody and if there have to be general elections, there will be general elections, because all we think is that Peru is okay and we don't want more chaos and misrule. We want union for Peruvians.”

He also remembered Fernando Belaúnde Terry and compared him to Pedro Castillo, assuring that the leader of Acción Popular gave “discourses of unity and peace”. “That is to be a good ruler, that is to give peace of mind, we need hope, not constant clashes or attacks.”

“How we missed Fernando Belaún de Terry. As an accio-populist, I have always followed his examples and principles. I do not want disunity, I have always sought dialogue, I want peace for the entire population and since Congress that is what we are doing approving every bill for the benefit of the population and working hard and hard,” said the Speaker of Parliament.

He added that “since the first day of this government it has wanted to hold a constituent assembly and close this Congress”, but that “we have stopped that issue by passing bills that everyone already knows, because the main thing is that there is democracy and without Congress there is no democracy.

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