on Wednesday morning announced that the general elections could be brought forward even to December 2023.
Therefore, making readjustments is being analyzed so as to comply with current electoral regulations, she said.
"These are the institutions on which verifying the schedule for these early elections that I have already raised depend; in legal terms, the
schedule would fit for April 2024;
however, making readjustments yesterday while talking, these could be brought forward to December 2023," she specified.
In remarks to reporters at the Government Palace Courtyard of Honor, the top official explained that holding elections before that date "would not legally fit."
Therefore, Mrs. Boluarte called on those who asked for early elections to remain "within the legal margin and the Constitution."
The top dignitary explained that said schedule, to bring the general elections forward, does not depend on her
but on the Congress of the Republic and the National Elections Board.
Call for calm
The President expressed condolences to the families of those who died in Apurimac and Arequipa. In this sense, Mrs. Boluarte affirmed it is not possible for some people to behave this way "putting the lives of compatriots at risk."
The Head of State reiterated that State ministers will travel to areas hit by tension such as Andahuaylas, Arequipa, Ica, and Huancavelica to sit down and talk "in a fraternal and calm manner, because when one shouts, you cannot hear the petitions."
"The only thing I can tell you is to remain calm (…) we have already lived that experience in the 1980s and 1990s, and we do not want to return to that painful experience, which marked the lives and faces of thousands of Peruvians; instead, we want tranquility and peace, and within that calm, let's start talking," she added.
Government Policies
On the other hand, the President said she hopes to reach good terms in the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative Branches, since "we are tired of polarization between two powers of the State."
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