Divisions and dispersion of forces characterize the unpopular Peruvian Parliament, where none of the benches has maintained its original composition arising from the 2021 elections, due to factors ranging from political differences to simple quarrels.
Lima, Aug 9 (RHC) More than half of the members of the congressional bench of the center-right Acción Popular party resigned on Tuesday, confirming the term "desbande" used in the media for the crisis.
The resignations of legislators María del Carmen Alva, Illich López and Silvia Monteza were joined by their colleagues Edwin Martínez, Karol Paredes, Juan Carlos Mori, José Arriola and Carlos Alva.
They resigned separately, although all for the same reason, their disagreement with the election by the majority of the 15-member bench -now reduced to seven- of Darwin Espinoza as spokesman of the group, with the same number of votes as those who resigned today.
Alva, very close to the extreme right-wing benches, declared that he resigned because he considers that Espinoza does not have the right profile for the responsibility, besides being the object of corruption accusations with great resonance in the press.
Espinoza rejected before the press the possibility of leaving the spokesmanship of the diminished parliamentary representation of AP in view of the resignations and said that he will talk to the resigning members to convince them to desist from their withdrawal, possibly motivated by media pressure.
Divisions and dispersion of forces characterize the unpopular Peruvian Parliament, where none of the benches has maintained its original composition arising from the 2021 elections, due to factors ranging from political differences to simple quarrels.
Acción Popular (AP) was born in 1956 and its leader and founder, Fernando Belaúnde Terry, was elected president twice, and governed between 1963-68 and 1980.
AP leader and congressman Valentín Paniagua was temporary president between November 1990 and July 2001, after Alberto Fujimori fled and resigned after a decade of heavy-handed government (Source: Prensa Latina).
