Peru’s embattled President Dina Boluarte has exhorted the country’s Congress to bring forward general elections, as nationwide anti-government protests continue following the removal of President Pedro Castillo last week.
In a national address on Saturday, Boluarte slammed Congress, which on Friday failed to muster enough votes to approve her proposal for a constitutional amendment that would have pushed up elections, originally scheduled for 2026, to December 2023.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Lima, Peru.
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Democracy is a system of government not a universal human value
@Lilcrust
Not always.
@ANTI-$TAT€
Case(s) in point: Venezuela and South Africa.
@2HotFlavored
Not really. Some people are just too ignorant and foolish to be allowed to vote. Latin America and Africa have been finding out the hard way what happens when such people make up the majority of the population for decades.
@Shaun Cameron exactly, Venezuela was once the 5th richest country on earth with military governments, it then tried democracy and ended up with a communist dictator and hyperinflation and Africa level poverty.
@Lilcrust it was Marxists who first pushed the universal egalitarianism.
Democracy leads to Marxists taking power always
Messi is the first tax cheat to become a world cup champion.
@ANTI-$TAT€ wrong
@Joe G GoVErn Me HaRDeR DaDdY
– comrade Joe
@ANTI-$TAT€ billionaire bootlicker
@Joe G how about this, nobody should pay taxes, everything should be privatized. From the sweat of ones brow you will have enough to eat, hard work over being a welfare leech. Only lazy moochs scream “pay more taxes”.
Your tax dollars go to war and violence more than anything else 😂
Messi is a Hero. Cheat taxes in latinoamerica, is an act of heroism
She is more Muppet than President, the Peruvian ppl can now clearly see the corruption that’s in their govt
The root of the unrest is humans’ Greed. That’s all.
No. Try human pride. Greed is just one of its manifestations.
COMMUNIST ARE GREED.
climate change is a problem
No it’s not. It’s just an excuse for elites to strip people of their freedoms and livelihoods.
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“… are trying to convince the people that peaceful protests are acts of terrorism…” I guess they must be taking their clue from Nancy Pelosi and the democrat party!
Dina foolish
Solamente los serranos apoyan al socialismo de Castillo y Perú Libre! Nuevas elecciones ya!!!
La policia en peru se estan volviendo locos que son. Mierda.
IF SHE STEPS DOWN NEW ELECTIONS MUST BE HELD, SIMPLE. SHE PREFERS TO BLAME IT ON THE CONGRESS WHICH ALLOWED HER TO ”BECOME” PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
EVERYONE WAS QUICK TO RECOGNIZE HER AS PRESIDENT BUT NOT TO RECOGNIZE THE MEETING OF AN EX-CIA NOW EMABSSADOR WITH THE DEFENSE MINISTER 2 DAYS BEFORE, THE STATE OF EXCEPTION WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS, THE LACK OF DUE PROCESS FOR CASTILLO AND THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS DEMADING ELECTIONS AND EVEN A NEW CONSTITUTION, THE VERY REASON CASTILLO DISSOLVED THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
I see a copy/paste scenario, from.bolivia
Democrazy is nothing but a farce. So is communism. What Peru desperately need is to abandoned western political system. More election will not stop this killings. A new political system that is pragmatic to Peru indigenous people is needed.
The fascist coup plotters are starting to regret their miscalculation.
The only coup-plotter here was Castillo himself.
Funny u government people believe u have more power than the creator imma tell u all something there is and that entity is not happy did u not think it would not know that its own creations where trying to control there own creator…how funny
The pot (Congress) calling the kettle (Castillo) black.
It would be hilarious, if the outcomes were not so sad.
i love you ALL
my best wishes thoughts and prayers/meditations for ALL
ONE 💛
She’s not The President.
People, we must ERADICATE GOVERNMENT by any means necessary. Rise up! 💪
Pedro Castillo deserve the death penalty, he try to take total control of the country, like always communist want.
Al Jazeera are supporting Pedro Castillo and their communist radicals, but they silence the Qatari crimes and the Irani excecutions
Who is the portrait of on the wall who is the painting of?
de la torre facho pobre…..🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶😎😎😎😎😎😎