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The parliamentarian, with a center-liberal tendency, will have the challenge of ending a crisis that has brought thousands of indignant citizens to the streets.
Centrist parliamentarian Francisco Sagasti was elected this Monday 16-N by Congress as the new president of Peru, the third to hold office in a week, with the challenge of ending a political crisis that has brought thousands of indignant citizens to the streets.
A 76-year-old engineer who worked for the World Bank, Sagasti was elected as the new president of Congress, but he automatically corresponds to him and immediately hires as head of state, according to the Constitution, which states that the holder of that state power assumes the presidency when there is no agent.
Sagasti, who belongs to the Purple Party, with a centrodoliberal tendency, will have to complete the current period of government, which will end on July 28, 2021.
The vote in favor of the list directed by Sagasti – the presidency and three vice-presidents of the table – was 97 votes in favor and 26 against, and with it finally a way out of the political crisis, of legitimacy and of repressive violence that was unleashed in Peru following the dismissal of Martín Vizcarra a week ago.
When Sagasti is sworn in by the interim presidency of the Republic, which is estimated to take place within a few hours, Congress will be in the hands of leftist MP Mirtha Vázquez.
Consent figure
Sagasti is a figure of relative consensus, well regarded by both the left and the right, and with a profile that can help reassure a citizenry tired of the political maneuvers and subordinate interests highlighted by the parties that imposed Vizcarra’s removal and hiring. by Merino.
Sagasti, in fact, was one of the few deputies (only 19 out of 130) who actively and passively opposed this dismissal for its illegitimate, destabilizing nature and for its distancing from the popular will, finally proven in the facts. .
The politician, an engineer by profession and who has worked for several years as a technical consultant at the World Bank, will apparently have more structures than his predecessor to form a “broad-based” cabinet that will ensure the conduct of the 2021 general elections and a peaceful transition. . of power in July.
Complicated consent
This election of Sagasti, however, was not easy and came after a failed attempt on Sunday evening, in which another list, this time led by leftist deputy Rocío Silva Santisteban and which had him as first vice president. , was rejected by members of Congress.
That list, which would have meant that for the first time in history a woman assumed the presidency of Peru, entered the vote after being agreed by the party’s spokespersons.
However, in an act that Sagasti called “betrayal,” many of the promised votes did not come, forcing a new day of negotiation among members of Congress.
Meanwhile, both the presidency of the Republic and the presidency of Congress have remained vacant and two of the three Peruvian state powers inoperative in the context of an unprecedented social and political crisis that adds to the economic and health drama caused by Covid-19.
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