Lime-. The Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, seemed to show annoyance in public today, after an adverse Sunday, in a speech in which she vehemently alluded to the criticism against her and the problems she faces.
“Screams or hatred of the country are not going to stop us and here we are firm for the health of all Peruvians, here there is no room for hatred and mediocrity,” said the president at the launch of a government program to improve health. hospitals that are centenary or close to a century after being built.
Boluarte did not give details, but among the reporters present there was the perception that she was upset by facts and events recorded over the weekend.
Yesterday the Datum company released the results of its monthly survey, in which approval of the president falls from 10 to 7 percent, the lowest for a president in two decades, and disapproval rises from 85 to 88 percent.
In addition, a Sunday television news program revealed parts of the recent and long interrogation of Boluarte by the Attorney General’s Office, within the framework of an investigation for alleged illicit enrichment.
The report highlighted the refusal of the declarant to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to authorize the lifting of the secrecy of her bank accounts, which are under suspicion due to the detection of significant unjustified income.
According to the report, at the request of prosecutors, the president responded that such an opening could only be ordered by a judge, which is expected to be managed by investigators.
Added to this are the comments that attribute the suspension of the well-known head of the High Complexity Crime Investigation Division (Diviac), Harvey Colchado, to revenge by the president for the raid of his house led by the officer on April 5 .
Colchado was suspended indefinitely and subjected to a disciplinary process for serious misconduct, according to the high command of the National Police, related to the publication on the Internet of the photo of a birthday cake with a doll in a police vest attacking a battering ram with a battering ram. door.
The coordinator of the Prosecutor’s Office Against Corruption in Power, Marita Barreto, under whose orders the Diviac is, said that the sanction against Colchado “is revenge for corruption in power.”
Barreto and the former Ministers of the Interior Mariano González and Carlos Basombrío agreed with Barreto in attributing the measure against the officer to revenge and the former said, directly, that it is “revenge on the part of President Boluarta.”
Colchado’s defenders point out that the birthday cake, given to Colchado by his agents, represents an orderly procedure by a supreme judge in the face of resistance from Boluarte’s relatives to open the door to prosecutors and police.
