The Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, has reported that his government team plans to appear before Congress for a first question of confidence on January 6 or 10 as part of “that common idea, of ensuring and laying the foundations of governability,” he said.
He has given this report after meeting with the president of the Peruvian Congress, José Williams. “It will be on January 6 or 10, specifically. We are going to define that with the parliamentary agenda,” Otárola told the media.
In this sense, the Peruvian prime minister has advanced that the government program that they plan to present to Congress will stand out for its “absolute” pragmatism, since they are not going to go with “a five-hour speech.”
“We are going to bring those urgent and necessary measures to consolidate peace in the country, to relaunch and reactivate the economy,” said Otárola, who has summoned all the benches of Congress to maintain in the coming dates a “frank dialogue” to “dealing with governance issues.”
Otárola has reiterated to the rest of the formations that this new one “respects discrepancies” and “observations”, as well as “the decision to extend coordination that could ensure the foundations of governability.”
Otárola took office as the new Prime Minister of Peru on December 21, in the midst of the strong protests that have been taking place throughout the country in support of former President Pedro Castillo and that have left nearly thirty dead and the security forces highly questioned for their use of force.
He is the second head of government of President Dina Boluarte, after the short-lived Pedro Angulo, questioned not only for his handling of the political crisis, but also for his controversial record, with allegations of abuse of power, extortion and even sexual harassment.
With information from La Gaceta de la Iberosfera