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🚨 #LOÚLTIMO: El presidente Pedro Castillo anunció su decisión de disolver el Congreso e instaurar un gobierno de emergencia excepcional, y convocar en el más breve plazo elecciones congresales para elaborar una nueva Constitución. pic.twitter.com/5jzM9LCm8F— Exitosa Noticias (@exitosape) December 7, 2022

Apparently Pedro Castillo has decided to dissolve congress amidst parliamentary sessions regarding Castillo's resignation. It's no secret that Castillo's presidency has been bombarded by no-confidence motions since day one, with a virtually paralized congress, Castillo has been cornered and moved towards dissolving congress, however the peruvian congress has decided to ignore the coup and is moving forward with deciding Castillo's resignation. Also Castillo's initiative to form a new constitutional congress has no popular supoport. Peru Libre's leader Vladimir Cerrón has called Castillo's coup a "precipitated" decision. Seems like it's over for Castillo, I don't see his presidency surviving this one.

edit: rumor on the grapevine is that Castillo is seeking refuge on Mexico's embassy.

edit edit: Castillo has been arrested by Lima police. VP Dina Boluarte will succeed Castillo.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Remember BadEmpanada talking about how much sway Fujimori and his allies still hold in Peru just before or after the election. Wasn't filled with much confidence and looks like it's bit Castillo in the ass. Don't think Peru will be alright until all those Fujimori allied fucks die.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Oh yeah Congress is partially captured by Fujimorists, Lima is a Fujimorist bastion too. Every news outlet is implicitly Fujimorist.

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Both him and trots said Castillo is not heavy handed enough to strike down the fujimorists and it seems they were right.

    • Vncredleader
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      2 years ago

      He said this about what's happening

      Peru's congress can vote to remove the president at any point, without even a reason, with a simple majority. They were about to try and do so for the THIRD TIME in a year, and had previously overthrown another president in 2020 with this same tactic. What Castillo did was stupid but you would absolutely be livid if the right wing in your country could just overthrow the president whenever they had a congressional majority. Trying to frame what he tried to do as some sort of attack on the Holy Sanctity of Democracy - as many 'leftists' are currently doing - is ridiculous. There is no democracy in Peru, whoever wins a presidential election can just be overthrown randomly by another branch of government! Castillo was responding to the worst fascists trying to take advantage of the single worst parliamentary system in the world to make it impossible for a leftist president to govern. He did so in a stupid way, sure, but I saw someone say this was 'Peru's January 6th' FFS.. What actually happened is that the right wing tried to carry out a coup by abusing the awful Peruvian constitutional provisions that let them overthrow the president with a simple majority in congress. This is the THIRD TIME they've tried to carry out said coup IN A YEAR. So the left wing president tried to pre-empt them before they could this time, and actually specifically announced his intention to reform the constitution to prevent this from happening more when he did so. He obviously fucked up because if you're left wing you're not going to get support to reform the state from that very state's institutions, so the cops/military/etc were never on board. If you somehow find yourself taking the side of the right here and comparing the left to Republicans, you're just hopelessly idiotic.

      Hard to disagree. There was no means for him to govern so long as the current constitution stands. This is why it was so vital for Chile to change its