Two weeks after his inauguration, the radicalized opposition calls for the dismissal of Pedro Castillo

During the mobilization, which began from Campo de Marte to Plaza San Martín, a few blocks from the Government Palace, slogans were chanted in which they called on the legislature to initiate the constitutional vacancy process ( dismissal) of Castillo.

In Plaza San Martín, there were political harangues late into the night, after which a few hundred people attempted to bring the protest to the presidential headquarters.

However, the protesters collided with metal fences and barricades set up by the National Police to control public order, which succeeded in containing attempts to approach the executive headquarters in various streets, according to an AFP journalist.

Although there were no direct clashes between police and protesters, security forces threw at least two tear gas canisters and deployed mounted police units.

One of the demonstrators, Gustavo Milan, a 25-year-old law student, told AFP that “Young people have patriotic values ​​and they will go and defend our country against any social-communist government that tries to achieve a constituent assembly of totally socialist influence.”

Castillo, who assumed the presidency on July 28, appointed a chief of staff and a ministerial team rejected by part of the population and by various sectors of public opinion for different legal or ideological reasons.

A poll released this Friday indicates that 41% of Peruvians disapprove of Castillo’s work, 76% reject the chief of staff, Guido Bellido, for having been the subject of a judicial investigation by “apology for terrorism” and 57% believe that the current ministerial team “will not be able to lead” the country.

Regarding the convening of a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution, only 5% of Peruvians support it.

“We will insist on this (constitutive) proposal but within the legal framework provided by the Constitution. We will have to reconcile positions with Congress,” Castillo said. However, the ruling Peru Libre party has only 37 of the 130 parliamentary seats.