Congress of Peru votes against Castillo's vacancy motion 2:26
(CNN Spanish) --
In a message to the Nation almost at midnight, the President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, decreed the State of Emergency in Lima and Callao on Monday and announced the immobility of citizens from 2 a.m. on Tuesday until 11:59 p.m. the same day.
"I call for calm and serenity," said the president.
The decision comes after the road blockades that occurred in various regions of the country as a result of protests by various transport unions.
“In order to restore peace and internal order, the Council of Ministers decreed a State of Emergency, suspending the constitutional rights related to liberty and personal security, inviolability of the home, and freedom of assembly and movement in the provinces of Lima and Callao,” Castillo said.
The president's message comes after an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers at the Government Palace led by the president, in which measures were discussed in the face of the protests by the carriers' unions in various regions of the country that began on March 28 due to rising fuel prices and that have left at least three people dead.
According to Provias, there are more than 44 points that have been interrupted on various highways nationwide and 86 that are restricted.
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In his message, Castillo also said that "in the face of the increase in the price of oil and basic necessities at the international level, my government has adopted a set of measures to improve the income of Peruvians and prevent families from being affected by the increase in the prices of basic necessities”.
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This Monday and Tuesday transport unions called for a national strike.
Hours before Pedro Castillo's speech, the Board of Spokespersons of Congress agreed to invite the President of the Republic and five ministers, this Tuesday at three in the afternoon, to Congress "in order to find a solution to the crisis that the country is going through ”.
After the message, the president of Congress, María del Carmen Alba, wrote on her Twitter account: “President Castillo cannot prevent the operation of Congress (Art. 117 of the Constitution).
The Legislative Branch will continue with its scheduled agenda for today, Tuesday, April 5.”
In the afternoon, the Ministry of Education issued a statement on its Twitter account and announced the suspension of face-to-face school classes this Monday and Tuesday "as a result of the blockade of different access roads and acts of violence in different parts of the capital. ”.
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