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.
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.
Oh yeah Congress is partially captured by Fujimorists, Lima is a Fujimorist bastion too. Every news outlet is implicitly Fujimorist.
Both him and trots said Castillo is not heavy handed enough to strike down the fujimorists and it seems they were right.
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
Why did he decided to purge his own leftwing cabinet first thing :cat-confused:
I think he compromised with fujimorists to avoid being impeached. lol. lmao.
The only way for Castillo to maintain power is to have the support of the armed forces, which are divided between pro-fujimori and ethnocacerists (far-left ultranationalists). If he gets removed, who ever is left is not going to govern Peru, the entire country is a mess.
Seems like Castillo won't get the support of the armed forces. They're sticking close to the constitutional word here (https://twitter.com/CCFFAA_PERU/status/1600558807167381510), and claiming that Castillo needs two no-confidence votes before declaring a congress dissolution, which he doesn't have. It's super over. What has he thinking
President Castillo has been arrested following a legislative coup by Peru's majority right-wing congress.
rip, should have gone full far-left when he was elected. Same shit could happen to Boric. :deeper-sadness:
I was going to reply in the other comment that I don't see how he'll get to leave the country as an exile to Mexico. The circumstances are super weird to me still, like why was Castillo shaking so much in his statement. I'm not exaggerating when I say Castillo had been navigating between possible impeachements his entire term, even Cerrón seemed surprised, what was so different this time around?
My guess, the armed forces forced him to do this. So they could put the fujimorists/neoliberals in power.
It's a shame really, i saw some pro-castillo protests in lima on tv, but nothing big enough to do something.
This also comes as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was also found guilty of corruption. Just massive losses for the pink wave all around.
Seems like the Congress is to blame, years of paralizing the country.
Sure, Castillo sucks in his terms, but this is Congress fault.
Congress is trash, the neoliberals are allies of the damn Nazis against Castillo, a guy who is just another socdem. They want another shitty ghoul to rule Peru thinking everything will be alright. The whole country seems to be heading towards a revolution or a civil-war.
I was under the impression Castillo had lost his popular support awhile ago, do you really see there being a strong reaction to this?
Castillo lost most of his support, but everyone hates congress and rightly blames them for Peru's current situation. I don't think there will be a civil war tomorrow, but with the economic crisis getting worse, the status quo cannot be maintained.
How do you fix Peru? Being in South America, it still must be under heavy American influence, and I'm sure there is a lot of resentment of socialism still due to the Shining Path and all. Is it just descent to fascism from here?
How do you fix Peru?
The first thing that must be done is the arrest and removal of the political rights of Keiko Fujimori, her family and her supporters. You simply cannot govern a country with a fascist having 25% of congress. And that requires the complete purge of her allies in the army.
So what I would do is use the anti-fujimori sentiment to get enough support to get elected. After the election I would use this movement to dissolve Congress and draft a new constitution.
Is it just descent to fascism from here?
Whoever comes to power will be blamed for the country's crisis. If Keiko is elected, she will not last 2 years in power. Just look at Lasso in Ecuador. My guess is that someone in the army will end up getting elected just like Hugo Chávez and reform the entire country. But that only time will tell.
ethnocacerists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocacerism
Wow that Ideology section is just :cat-confused:
Right? Whose idea was it to make a Nazi-ish flag? The eagle doesn't even distinguish it much, German Nazis loved eagle shit.
Every new brand of fascism surprises me and then a despondent "of course" is uttered from my lips.
Can't say I'm surprised by this. We'll see how long Dina lasts.
