The Diplomat
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, spoke yesterday with the new President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, and highlighted the “example of democratic strength” of the Peruvian people and its institutions, following Pedro Castillo’s attempted coup d’état..
The Spanish government had already expressed on Wednesday, through a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that it “firmly condemned the rupture of constitutional order in Peru”, after President Pedro Castillo dissolved Parliament and established a curfew hours before facing his third motion of censure.
The statement added that the Spanish government welcomed the restoration of democratic normality, and assured that “Spain will always be on the side of democracy and the defence of constitutional legality”.
Yesterday, Sánchez reported on his Twitter account the conversation he had had with the new Peruvian president, who was vice-president of Castillo’s government, and which is the conversation with the new Peruvian president, the first woman president in the history of the South American country.
The head of the Executive indicated that he had conveyed to Dina Boluarte – who was sworn in on Wednesday after Castillo’s dismissal by Congress – “Spain’s support in defence of the Constitution and the rule of law”.
Meanwhile, from Brussels, where she was questioned by journalists, the Second Vice-President and Minister of Employment, Yolanda Díaz, said that she “deeply regrets the violation of democratic norms” and expressed her full support for the Peruvian people.
Díaz added that the Spanish government is “always in favour” of constitutional and democratic rules, as well as the defence of human rights in Peru as in any other country in the world.
The Vice-President was a great supporter of Pedro Castillo, of whom she wrote that his inauguration in July 2021 was “a glimmer of hope for Peru and Latin America”. “The election of a president who comes from below is an opportunity for democracy. Many successes and good luck in this new stage,” she wrote on her Twitter account, in similar terms to those of the leaders of Unidas Podemos.
Meanwhile, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, told the “100,000 Madrileños in Peru” that “your struggle for freedom is our struggle”. The Peruvian people,” she told Esradio, “have reacted because they have been asleep, narcotised and kidnapped in the hands of these ultra-leftists for a short time. But if more time had passed, as has happened in other countries such as Nicaragua, Venezuela or Cuba, the situation would have been very different”.
“Because when these governments come to power,” he added, “what they do is erode, with a strategy of decay, as is happening to us in Spain, so that these governments have no limits and there is nowhere to turn, no rule of law and no separation of powers”.
