Because of the level of opposition to the trip, very few dare to predict the outcome, especially because many lawmakers have said the president should not leave the country, which they say has failed three foreign trips in less than a year. Government.
The lack of transcendent intentions and results of these trips has led Parliament, the press and public perception to believe that Boluarte should refrain from any new departures from the country.
Ministers and other voices calling for approval of the permit from November 1-4 argue that this time there is a concrete content, the inaugural summit of leaders of the Alliance of the Americas for Economic Prosperity (APEP), one new attempt by Washington to create a bloc after more than one mistake.
For Congressman Flavio Cruz of the leftist Peru Libre party, the trip, including a private audience with President Joseph Biden, is meaningless “when there are jobs here that the presidency should take care of,” he said.
The serious economic, political and insecurity problems were cited by progressive lawmaker Ruth Luque as an argument for her rejection.
The right-wing extremist congressmen Norma Yarrow, Jorge Montoya and César Cueto, who usually vote for authorization for North American troops to enter the country and are considered friends of Washington, have also announced that they will vote against the trip.
Analysts Óscar Vidarte and David Sulmont agreed that the trip is feasible, but pointed out that citizens could see it as outrageous, and the second pointed out that it would give the impression that the president was “local Escape from problems.”
Journalist César Campos wrote in the conservative newspaper Expreso that the reaction of protest and anger to the president’s new trip was understandable, but it also questioned possible geopolitical goals of the meeting called by Washington.
He mentions that the meeting that Washington is convening is “Washington’s umpteenth attempt to reconcile its backyard in the geopolitical chess game it is contesting with the People’s Republic of China,” which was recently highlighted by a claim by the United States against Peru Because of the size of the Chinese investment here was emphasized.
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