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Peru opposition to lead Congress in setback for president-elect
On the eve of Pedro Castillo’s inauguration, he and his Free Peru party are dealt a political blow.
Peruvian President-elect Pedro Castillo will be sworn in on Wednesday but will have to deal with a Congress led by the opposition party [File: Martin Mejia/AP Photo]
26 Jul 2021
An opposition-led alliance won a vote on Monday to lead Peru’s Congress, a setback for socialist President-elect Pedro Castillo on the eve of his inauguration and a sign of challenges ahead to his plans to reform the constitution and increase mining taxes.
A leadership team, headed by centrist legislator María del Carmen Alva from the Popular Action party, won by 69 to 10 votes over a group led by retired military man Jorge Montoya from an ultra-conservative right-wing party.
A list of candidates proposed by Castillo’s Free Peru party was rejected over procedural issues, underscoring challenges the outsider president-elect faces pushing through reform in a fragmented legislature where no single party has a majority.
Alva, who will be Congress president for the 2021-2022 legislative period, had support from the right-wing Popular Force party of Keiko Fujimori, who narrowly lost to Castillo in a knife-edge June 6 runoff and has pledged to fight him.
More:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/26/peru-opposition-to-lead-congress-in-setback-for-president-elect
