Pedro Castillo follows the Chavist manual: promises to reform the Constitution to concentrate more power

The Peruvian leftist candidate Pedro Castillo presented this Sunday an action plan with proposals for the first 100 days of government, in which he ratified his intention to reform the current constitution, his main proposition against his rival in the June 6 election, right winger Keiko Fujimori.

The document marks a certain distance from the Marxist and Leninist ideology presented by the Peru Free party before the jury of the national elections, but remains firm on its proposal to call a referendum in order to install a constituent Assembly modify the Magna Carta, approved in 1993, under the government of Alberto Fujimori.

In this way, Castillo, who leads the polls, seeks to follow the path that Venezuela has charted in recent decades under the leadership of Hugo Chávez (1999), of Ecuador (under the government of Rafael Correa, 2008). , from Bolivia (with Evo Morales, in 2009) and which Chile is currently following, in a process called by Sebastián Piñera after the social epidemic of 2019-2020.

“Among the urgent measures of the early days of the People’s Government and to respond to the demand for profound change that we have gathered across the country, We will promote the call for a constitutive referendum so that the Peruvian people can democratically decide whether or not they want a new Constitution and we will be very respectful of the will of the Peruvian people.», Indicates the text signed by Castillo.

According to the document, the future Assembly could reserve the participation of specific groups such as social movements, professional associations, businessmen, unions, civil society organizations, students, women and indigenous peoples, among others. “The Constitution of the dictatorship must give way to a Constitution of democracy, drafted by all voices and all bloods (…). The new constitution which will be implemented by the will of the people will have the color and flavor of the people», He indicated.

In addition to pointing out that the current Magna Carta was created after Alberto Fujimori’s 1992 self-coup, Castillo criticized that “it prioritizes private interests over public interest, the benefit to life and dignity “, and that they” weaken the guarantees of labor rights have erased the right to social housing and created a private pension scheme “.

For him, proposes a Constitution in which the State “has a role of planning, regulation and investment; where the public interest, that of all citizens, prevails over the private interest ”, and proposed a state overhaul that “guarantees transparent decision-making with the active participation of citizens”.

The text avoids talking about nationalizations or expropriations. Instead, he refers to the “nationalization of wealth” to “make it serve Peruvians, with new rules on taxes and royalties”. According to him, “multinational mining companies obtain surpluses, which are not linked to new investments or technologies, but only to the ups and downs of the international market”. In this sense, he proposes the “renegotiation of contracts of fiscal stability with large companies ”.

The six other axes of the text its la lucha contra la pandemia, el relanzamiento del empleo y la economía popular, el inicio de una “segunda reforma agraria”, the reforma tributaria hacia las “empresas con sobreganancias”, the extension of the red de gas y el retorno seguro a las face-to-face classes.

On Saturday, Castillo had announced to some members of his technical team and a few hours before presenting his plan, he had met political figures such as the former center-left candidate Verónika Mendoza (Juntos Por el Perú) in a room in Peru. Free.

According to party sources, Castillo, a teacher and rural teacher unionist, is evaluating the official presentation of his government plan on Tuesday.

The document:

New polls

This Sunday, Trade posted a mock vote from IPSOS consulting firm, which would give a higher level of precision by eliminating the indecisive option, with an amphora for the respondents. Castillo reached a advantage of only 2 points (43.6% to 41.7%), below the study’s margin of error.

For its part, The Republic presented a survey of the Institute of Peruvian Studies, in which Castillo maintains his almost seven points ahead on the right-wing candidate, with 36.5% of support, against 29.6% of her rival, figures little different from last Sunday’s results from the same consulting firm.

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