According to Fake News, as false and malicious news is now called, the night before was supposed to be the night President Castillo would stage a coup to avoid being vacated (removed) by the opposition parliament over alleged corruption.
Tweets and phone calls from lawmakers and right-wing activists to newsrooms spread rumors about the surprise resignation of Defense Secretary Daniel Barragán, who cited “solely personal reasons” for his resignation.
According to the version promptly denied by Castillo and the Council of Ministers, Barragán resigned because he opposed the putsch or because he was unable to articulate it due to resistance from the military leadership, a version peppered with the roar of tanks and overflights over the presidential palace.
In reality, according to analyst Anahí Durand, the network conspirators demanded that military chiefs take a stand, inciting them to take a stand against the president.
The rumor spread and ‘it was just a Saturday night fever,’ as one aged and sleepless reporter said this morning after spending the night on the watch, although just in case he added the old adage that goes: ‘When the river sounds Because it brings stones.”
After the misinformation, interest focused again on the plenary session of Congress, where the head of state will be placed in the defendant’s dock as there will be a debate and vote on whether or not to fire him, a start for the outcome of which few dare to bet .
In the ranks of the opposition, accused by the progressive banks of being coup plotters for trying to prevent Castillo from government, triumphalism has waned before he took office.
Many believe the rumor flurry was a ploy to get congressmen who oppose the vacancy and want to keep their seat to support it in order to avoid dissolving the legislature, a possibility the government is ruling out. Those who are sure that they can get rid of the country teacher this time after two failed attempts are fewer and fewer and even former parliament leader Maricarmen Alva, a radical opposition party, admitted that “it is very difficult”. to gain 87 votes (two-thirds of the total) from Congressmen to oust Castillo.
Another supporter of the vacancy, lawmaker Enrique Wong, said if that goal is not met, we must forget it and the Confidence Motions (government’s power to convene Congress, opening the possibility of dissolving the legislature) enter into dialogue between both parties for governability.
However, the well-known analyst Juan de la Puente commented that the bridges of dialogue have been blown due to the extreme polarization that exists and the possibility that the parties will accept possible international mediation is remote.
The toughest sectors of Congress have launched a “Plan B” using an article of the Constitution providing for the president’s temporary suspension on disability grounds, alluding to illness or prosecution by the Supreme Court, but a congressional commission has emerged adjusted the goal of vacating the castle due to the allegations against him.
For De la Puente, Peru could be close to a cycle of violence, of factional confrontation, and it is worrying that there is talk (from the right) of going to the meeting on the vacancy on December 7th, albeit figuratively Meaning meaning: “kill or be killed”.
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