Coup d’état – Pedro Castillo: Alejandra Salas says Dino Baluarte is president ‘because she always counted’

On a day like today, two years ago, the then president Pedro Castillo gave an amazing the message of the nation in which he announced the arbitrary dissolution of Congress and the reorganization of the system of administration of justice. His coup attempt This cost him his dismissal from the position now held by Dino Baluarte.

Two years after that on December 7 former Minister of Labor and Employment PromotionAlejandro Salas, told the details of how the days before December 7 looked like.

U Expanding news, Salas He reminded that on that day the third proposal for the vacancy of the president against Castillo Teronestherefore, on the eve of the details of the presentation of the then president to Congress and its deployment from Government Palace.

For this reason he insisted that it was strange that Professor Chotano went on public television and announced closing of the convention.

“For us, the seventh day was an absolute surprise. When we entered, we found ourselves somewhere in the Palace of Government, and it was the Quiñones room, next to the Grau room, several ministers arriving, moment by moment the message of the nation bursts in,” he said.

Alejandro Salas attacks Dina Boluarte

In this sense, Alejandro Salas also revealed that a few weeks before December 7, Pedro Castillo convened a cabinet in which he was also In Bolwart as Minister of Development and Social Integration – as part of calls for the president’s resignation that arose in Congress.

“Dina Boluarte thanks the president for calling her, she tells him, ‘Thank you for calling me to this meeting, since you don’t call me often,'” he said.

Salas He added that he said at the time Baluarte Zegarra that he would be given a letter to sign that he would resign as vice president in the event of a possible vacancy by Pedro Castillo. True, he did not say whether the current president signed the letter, although the story is already known: In Bolwart He assumed the position of President of the Republic and today marks two years in power, while teacher Chotano is serving a preventive arrest in Barbadilla prison.

“I say to her, ‘Well, Madam Vice President, since you are once again demonstrating your loyalty to the President, let me bring you a letter so that you can resign as Vice President to fill a vacancy in Congress,'” he said. said.

For this reason, Alejandro Salas claimed that Dina Baluarte “always planned” to reach the presidency.

“It cannot speak of the democratic spirit, that is, it does not exist for the spirit; She is the president not because of the democratic spirit, she is the president because she always had a calculation,” he concluded.