Five, Peru – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte said Tuesday that the country will celebrate the general elections of one year in an effort to end years of instability.
He Bouular you deeply unpopular He said that April 2026 will choose a new president, 130 deputies and 60 senators. The bicameral electoral system has not been used since the early 1990s.
In a brief television speech nationwide, Boulerte did not say if it would be a contender. Boluarte assumed power in Peru In 2022 to complete the term of Then President Pedro Castillowho was withdrawn from office only two years in his term five years after trying to dissolve the legislature to avoid his own elimination.
She said the next elections will be “democratic, clean, transparent and orderly.”
Boluarte has a 93%disapproval rating, according to a national survey conducted by Datum International in March. Its term ends on July 28, 2026.
Last week, the Congress of Peru voted Eliminate Interior Minister From office after deciding that he had not been able to properly handle the growing violent crime in the Andean country.
Public outrage has increased due to an increase in murders and other violence, especially the recent murder of Paul Flores, the 39 -year -old main singer of the Cumbia Banda Harmia 10. He was fatally murdered when the assailants attacked the tourist bus of his band after a concert in Lima.
In reaction to the murder of Flores, Boluarte on March 19 declared an emergency state in the capital and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help the police address the increase in violence. That same day, opposition legislators requested a vote of distrust against the Minister of the Interior.
The Boluarte government had previously decreed an emergency state from September to December in an attempt to stop violence.
The authorities reported 2,057 murders in 2024, compared to 1,506 in 2023.
