Global Courant 2023-05-23 03:01:38
It was approved by a committee of Parliament. It is because of his refusal to hand over the presidency of the Pacific Alliance to the government of Dina Boluarte and her alleged interference in internal affairs.
A commission of the Peruvian Parliament approved on Monday a request to declare Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “persona non grata” for his refusal to hand over the presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru and his alleged interference in internal affairs.
The request to the parliamentary plenary session – which must evaluate the request in another session whose date is not known – also seeks to prevent the Mexican president from entering the territory of Peru.
It is not the first time that the Peruvian Congress has declared leaders of other countries “non grata”. He did so in January against former Bolivian President Evo Morales and in February against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, also for his unfavorable statements to the government led by President Dina Boluarte.
The request affirms that the Mexican president has made statements “ideologized” and “laden with falsehoods” about the failed attempt to dissolve Parliament by former president Pedro Castillo on December 7, which allowed Boluarte to assume power and the start of the political storm that, after successive demonstrations, has left more than 60 dead.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte. AP Photo
“Pride”
In his morning press conference, López Obrador said in reference to the Peruvian Parliament that for him “it is even a timbre of pride that those who act in this way declare me non grata.”
The Mexican president indicated that the Peruvian Congress invented “crimes of corruption” against former Peruvian President Castillo. “It was a dismissal due to the approach made by the president (Pedro Castillo) to disappear Congress, what they do is dismiss him and imprison him, and they invent crimes of corruption, they are different things,” he said.
Castillo, now jailed for three years preventively while being investigated for alleged crimes of corruption and rebellion, tried to dissolve Parliament and start an emergency government on December 7. Congress removed it hours later. Castillo began to be investigated for alleged corruption shortly after taking office in his 16-month term.
Mexico and Peru maintain ties at the charge d’affaires level. In February, Peru recalled its ambassador to Mexico after López Obrador called Boluarte a “spurious president.” In December the Peruvian president expelled the Mexican ambassador in Lima.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro. AFP photo
Other cases
López Obrador said last week that Boluarte is a “usurper” and that Mexico will not hand over the presidency of the Pacific Alliance economic bloc to Peru, the country that is responsible for leading the group, because Boluarte is not legitimately “president of Peru.”
Parliament declared Morales unpleasant in January, who said in December, in the midst of anti-government demonstrations that also demanded the closure of Parliament, that Peru was experiencing “an insurrection of the Peruvian people against that colonial state.”
It also declared Petro persona non grata in February after the Colombian leader said Peruvian police officers “march like Nazis, against their own people, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights.”
That month, the Peruvian police made large deployments of troops in front of the Palace of the Judiciary, days before a large anti-government march.
The Peruvian Congress is one of the most discredited and unpopular institutions, according to surveys. The firm Ipsos Peru indicated that Parliament had 79% disapproval in May, only 13% support it.
Source: AP
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