Peruvian workers, including state employees, affiliated with the Interprofessional Confederation of State Employees (CITE), issued a statement through their trade union center CGTP, “categorically” rejecting the collapse of democratic institutions following the December 7 events in your country.
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“The General Federation of Workers of Peru categorically rejects the collapse of our country’s democratic institutions and the continuation of a crisis that benefits right-wing forces and economic power groups in Peru,” the CGTP statement begins.
Following the crisis unleashed yesterday, which culminated in the arrest of President Pedro Castillo and the swearing-in of Dina Boluarte as the new President, the union confederation declared: “As working class we are aware that the Congress of the Republic deserves to be dissolved for its constant attacks on democracy and threats to social and labor rights and gains…also for fueling the political crisis whose economic repercussions are affecting millions of Peruvian families”.
Clinging to its democratic tradition, the CGTP recognizes that Peru’s persistent political, social and economic instability has its roots in the false 1993 constitution, which makes it urgent to create a new social contract in which the interests of the people are paramount and not by the economic power groups that control our country.”
In conclusion, they stress: “The working class and the people must be mobilized to ensure full respect for democracy and workers’ rights. For political reform, a new constitution and the promotion of general elections”.
For its part, the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Public Servants (CLATE), through its President Julio Fuentes, expressed its “tremendous concern about institutional collapse”, recalling that “this government of Pedro Castillo was constantly challenged and kept in check by the electoral process so far, from the most concentrated sectors, they have done nothing but hamper his lead and severely strain his figure. The President also reported that “our Confederation, the organizations that make it up, accompany the organized workers of Peru in all the actions that they have carried out and that will certainly continue in the future, so that all their rights are guaranteed”.
(With information from resumenlatinoamericano.org)