President Pedro Castillo celebrated on Thursday (28) one year at the helm of the government of Peru, a position to which he acceded after winning the elections in 2021 and in the midst of a political crisis in the country, during which former President Martín Vizcarra was removed from power and former presidents Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Manuel Merino resigned.
His campaign and first year of presidency were not without controversy, from the appointment of the president of the Council of Ministers, Guido Bellido Ugarte, at the beginning of the term, through the multiple changes of interior ministers, to his proposal of chemical castration for rapists, the recent state of emergency and immobility order in the face of the protests and the five investigations against him, four for alleged corruption.
Castillo has rejected these accusations and says there is a plot against him to remove him from office.
In any case, his first year as president was marked by attempts by the opposition in the Peruvian Congress to remove him and call for his resignation, and according to consultancy Ipsos, the president had a 76% disapproval rate in April, with 19 % approval.
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New Constitution Project
Castillo sent a bill of constitutional reform to the Peruvian Congress in April so that the population could decide whether to authorize a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution.
In a letter sent to the President of Parliament, María del Carmen Alva, Castillo asks that Congress “debate and approve this proposal, and that citizens be consulted through the referendum in the same electoral act of the Regional and Municipal Elections of 2022”. Peruvians are called to the polls in October to elect new local officials.
However, Peru’s Congress finally shelved Castillo’s constitutional reform bill in May.
chemical castration
Castillo’s government announced in April that it was preparing a bill proposing chemical castration for rapists of minors, teenagers and women.
During his presentation, Castillo mentioned the case of a 3-year-old girl that caused great outrage in the country. The man, accused of kidnapping and raping her, received nine months of preventive detention by the Judiciary.
Chemical castration is the use of drugs to reduce libido or sexual activity and is a legal form of punishment in countries such as South Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic and some states in the United States, but it is considered “cruel and cruel” punishment. inhumane” by Amnesty International.
Castillo said he expects the support of the Congress of the Republic to approve Bill 01761/2021-PE, formally presented on April 21.
“Don’t turn your back on a popular outcry,” he added.
According to Peruvian Parliament websitethe project has been with the Justice and Human Rights Commission since April.
State of emergency after protests
In a message to the Nation at midnight on Monday, April 4, Castillo declared a state of emergency in Lima and Callao and announced citizen immobility from 2:00 am on Tuesday until 11:59 pm on the same day.
The decree came after an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers at the Government Palace, led by the president, in which measures were discussed in the face of protests by transport unions in various regions of the country that began on March 28 due to the increase in fuel and that left at least six people dead.
During Tuesday’s meeting between President Pedro Castillo and the board of directors in Peru’s Congress, the president announced that he was rescinding the immobilization decree.
Four cabinet makeovers
Since his inauguration as president on July 28, 2021, Castillo has passed through four government offices, the last sworn in in February 2022.
This fourth and final cabinet is led by Aníbal Torres, appointed president of the Council of Ministers, after the departure of the criticized Héctor Valer.
In addition, he had seven interior ministers: Juan Carrasco Millones, Luis Barranzuela Vite, Avelino Guillén, Alfonso Chávarry Estrada, Dimitri Senmache Artola, Mariano González Fernández (he lasted 15 days in office) and Willy Huerta Olivas.
Waiver of your own party
On June 30, Castillo announced on his Twitter account his “irrevocable” resignation from the Peru Free party, for which he ran and won the 2021 elections.
Castillo said on the social network that his departure was respecting the “party and its bases built in the campaign”. In addition, he shared the document that he would have presented to the registry of political organizations of the National Jury of Elections.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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