New scandal in Peru for the Halloween party at the house of a minister

If something was missing the Peruvian president, Pedro CastilloIt was another political crisis in the most unstable government in recent decades, since its inauguration on July 28. He just had it, and in the most unusual way. The Minister of the Interior, Luis Barranzuela placeholder image, has starred in a loud scandal after organizing a meeting in his house with music so strident that the neighbors had no alternative but to report him to the policeman. Barranzuela was given to transgress the own orders of his ministry to the population: last week, he issued a statement to prohibit the celebrations on the occasion of the day of the Creole song, a traditional festival that is celebrated on October 31, and the novel halloween ritual. The minister decided to be equal to all those who scoffed at the state’s warning. The arrival of the police to his house was filmed by the press, and now, his position hangs by a very weak thread.

The Prime Minister, Mirtha Vasquez, which has not yet been ratified by Congress, will decide shortly with Castillo if Barranzuela should remain in office. Before meeting the president, Vásquez sent a letter to the Interior Minister in which he demands “in the shortest time” to clarify what happened over the weekend, just when the ministry itself had prohibited parades, carnivals, traditional festivals. , as well as any form of mass gathering. Peru has had more than 200,000 deaths from covid-19 and the fear of a third wave of the pandemic is latent in a country that has had to make enormous efforts to face the health crisis in adversity.

“If these facts are confirmed, they would imply that a minister violates the norms issued by the Council of Ministers itself, which is even more serious considering that the ministry of which you are head has a key responsibility in the State’s task of guaranteeing compliance with the measures against covid-19″ Underlines the letter from the ‘premier’.

Lima television broadcast images of a party with people entering and leaving the home. Among them was the legislator Guillermo Bermejo, from Peru Libre. “It was a work meeting,” Barranzuela said.

Resignation requests

“At this point there is no other way out than the removal of Mr. Barranzuela. Not only because of the events that he starred in this weekend, but mainly because of the line of questions against him that has not stopped growing since the day he was sworn into office. “, said the newspaper Trade in your editorial. “It is still curious, in short, that the government that likes to talk so much about class division It does not seem to worry you about that other distance –which has done so much damage to Peru– that exists between citizens who are subordinate to the law and officials who feel free to skip it because they know that they will not be sanctioned. “

Castillo’s management goes from stumble to stumble. Weeks ago he got rid of the problematic ‘premier’ Guido Bellido and other members of his cabinet of ministers. The directive of the ruling party Free Peru (PL), driven in the shadows by Vladimir Cerrón, an orthodox Marxist, stars, in this context of growing weakness, in a hidden fight with the rural teacher.

As soon as he took office, Castillo was forced to accept the resignation of the head of Peru’s Foreign Relations, Héctor Béjar, a former Guevarista guerrilla during the 1960s, after having linked the intelligence services to the origin of the political violence in that country. .

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