Peru: OAS meets Fujimori supporters and defines meetings with state powers as “sincere”.

The high-level mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) visits Peru to assess the situation of democracy in the country described this Tuesday as “sincere and transparent” the meetings held with the different powers of the State at the beginning of his visit. Now it’s his turn to meet the Fujimori opposition on the last day of his visit to Lima.

The group’s spokesman, the Paraguayan foreign minister, Eladio Loizaga, He spoke of a “very sincere, very open and transparent” dialogue with President Pedro Castillo and the other authorities with whom the mission met after arriving in Lima on Monday.

“We will present a report to the OAS Permanent Council in due course, and from there the conclusions will be known,” said Loizaga.

The mission, made up of four foreign ministers, representatives of three others and a commissioner from the General Secretariat of the OAS, met on Monday Castillo, the president of the Peruvian unicameral Congress, José Williams, representatives of Justice and many others. interlocutors.

The mission was approved by the OAS at the request of Castillo, who claims so a coup is underway against him led by the right-wing opposition.

At the Government Palace, Castillo assured the mission that some political sectors want to endanger the stability of the country with “lies”.

“Strong Friction”

Subsequently, the members of the mission met with the President of the Congress, the opposition José Williams, who ensured that Parliament has “no intention of carrying out a coup”, while acknowledging that “there are frictions and that these frictions are strong” with the Executive.

Williams stressed to his interlocutors that they will defend “the Constitution, regulations and democracy in general”, as well as “independence and the separation of powers, due process and institutionality”.

The mission then met with the President of the Judiciary, Elvia Barrios, the members of the Constitutional Court and with the Peruvian Attorney General, Patricia Benavides, whose constitutional complaint against Castillo caused the president to request the intervention of the OAS.

The mission will be accomplished this Tuesday with their second and last day of meetings in the countrywith meetings with representatives of different political parties, among them the Fujimorists of Fuerza Popular, as well as with the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP).

On October 20, the OAS plenary decided to send a mission to Peru to study the political crisis, after Castillo asked the body to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter after considering that a “new type of coup” against him was being prepared.

The Peruvian executive has formally requested the agency the activation of articles 17 and 18 of the Democratic Charter with which the institution can provide assistance when “the government of a member state deems that its political-institutional-democratic process or its legitimate exercise of power is at risk”.

The group will write a report to bring it to the attention of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington.

The decisions of the continental forum they are not bindingbut for analysts yes you could draw a line to solve problems.

Castillo, a 53-year-old rural teacher, has been targeted by the opposition since he took over in July of last year.

The opposition has already tried twice to remove him without success and now relies above all on the denunciation of the prosecutor’s office and on the figure of treason against the homeland.

Agencies