The Congress of Peru grants a vote of confidence to the new prime minister

The Peruvian Congress has granted this Tuesday a vote of confidence to the Council of Ministers led by the newly appointed Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, after he appeared during a plenary session marked by the deaths during the protests that are taking place in the country in against the government of Dina Boluarte.

With 73 votes in favor, 42 against and six abstentions, the Andean legislative chamber has shown its confidence in the new cabinet, which has exposed and debated the general policy that the Government will carry out as well as the main measures required by its administration, has reported ‘Diario Correo’.

During the plenary session, the death of 18 people was taken into account during the protests in the last 24 hours in the department of Puno, all of this in the most violent day since the demonstrations began with the removal of former president Pedro Castillo on the 7th of December.

Before starting the intervention of the ‘premier’, a large number of congressmen, especially from left-wing benches, have approached with posters to shout “murderer” to Otárola for the events that occurred in Puno, which is why the session has come to be suspended momentarily.

Hours before, the legislators had considered that the plenary session should be suspended, but their proposal obtained the support of the majority, since it only had 29 votes in favor.

“In one day this Congress terrified, justified the deaths of compatriots, rigged an accused rape and, finally, granted confidence to a cabinet stained with blood. This misfortune will go down in history!”, the congresswoman for Cambio Democrático Sigrid Bazán stated on Twitter.

The leader of the Peru Libre party, Vladimir Cerrón, has also criticized the vote: “Of the 47 dead, confidence was given to the cabinet of death with 73 votes in favor. As the song says: That those few do not easily forget it!

With information from Gaceta de la Iberosfera

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