07/28/2021 4:53 PM
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Updated 07/28/2021 4:53 PM
With the assistance of Alberto Fernández and other leaders of the region, Pedro Castillo assumed this Wednesday as the new president of Peru.
And in his first speech he left a
controversial proposal
for the
unemployed youth.
And he issued an ultimatum for "foreign criminals" living in his country.
"Young people who neither study nor work will
have to go to military service
," said the new Peruvian president.
Minutes before he had thrown another ad of similar harshness.
"Foreign criminals will have a
72-hour
term from the date
to leave the country,
" Castillo assured in Congress, after his inauguration.
This Wednesday he swore "
by God
, by my family, by my Peruvian sisters and brothers, peasants, native peoples" to hold elective office in Peru until 2026. He added that he was swearing
"by a country without corruption
and by a new Constitution."
Pedro Castillo in his inaugural address to the Congress of Peru.
Photo AFP Presidency
His most important announcement was the project to
reform the Constitution
of Peru, drawn up in 1993 during the term of Alberto Fujimori.
"One of our main political flags, now converted into a flag of the majority of the people, is the
convocation of a constituent assembly
, which endows our country with a new Magna Carta that allows us to
change the face
of our economic and social reality", Castillo said.
In any case, he acknowledged that a
long job
awaits him
in Parliament
.
"Without a doubt, to achieve this purpose, we will have to reconcile positions with Congress, since it will be here, in this house of laws, where the corresponding norms will have to be approved," he admitted.
Pedro Castillo and the president of the Congress, María del Carmen Alva, after the inauguration of the new president of Peru.
Reuters photo
Castillo's campaign proposal to change the current constitution was rejected by his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the former president, and by other political adversaries.
"We will insist on this proposal, but
within the legal framework
that the Constitution provides," said the new president, whose Peru Libre party has only 37 of the 130 seats in Parliament.
The Government Palace will cede
Castillo also announced that
he will not direct the country from the Palace of Pizarro
, the Government House, as he plans to turn it into a museum.
"I will not govern from the House of Pizarro, because I believe that we have to
break with colonial symbols
. We will cede this Palace to the new Ministry of Cultures so that it can be used
as a museum
that shows our history," said the Peruvian president.
The Government Palace, also known as the Pizarro Palace, in the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru.
Photo EFE file
The former rural teacher of Cajamarca also promised in his speech of almost an hour, before foreign authorities, that when his term ends, on July 28, 2026, he will resume his "usual teaching tasks."
Castillo, 51, a representative of the Peruvian left, was elected in the ballot against Keiko Fujimori, who he surpassed by
just 44,263 votes
.
After more than a month of complaints and uncertainty, the National Elections Jury proclaimed him president on July 20.
Despite his leftist background, he said Wednesday that he will
respect private property
.
And he announced these other measures that could awaken an
ambiguous ideological consideration
.
In that sense, he said that it is "totally false" that his government is going to incur expropriations or nationalization.
Thus he came to the crossroads of the accusations made by his political opponents.
In any case, he warned that there will be a system in which "large
companies do not cheat the treasury
."
And he assured that the State will have a supervisory role in "defense of the environment and the rights of consumers."
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