The dismissed president of Peru Dina Boluarte He said goodbye to his position this Friday with a message to the nation that was cut off by all the television channels that were broadcasting it, including the state-run TV Perú, and in which he accepted his dismissal.
Boluarte issued a pre-recorded message in the Government Palace of Lima once the plenary session of Congress had approved by 122 votes in favor, out of a total of 130 parliamentarians, his immediate dismissal, declaring him with “permanent moral inability” to confront the rise of crime on a national scale.
The president appeared in one of the rooms of the Presidency headquarters escorted by her ministers, in a speech where she no longer wore the presidential sash, one of the attributes reserved for the head of state.
Boluarte began his message by accepting his dismissal and, immediately afterwards, began to list a series of facts and figures from his administration. At that point, the message was taken off the airwaves.
Minutes later, he left the Government Palace in his official car in an unknown direction.
More than four hours after leaving the presidential palace, her whereabouts are unknown, since apparently she did not arrive at her home in the residential district of Surquillo in Lima, where no one was waiting for her on the street, a sign of being the most unpopular ruler in America with barely 3% approval.
Before his dismissal, rumors spread that Boluarte had allegedly explored the possibility of seeking asylum in the embassies of Argentina, Brazil or Ecuador.
Attention was focused above all on Ecuador, since it coincided that on Thursday the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru was in Quito for a new meeting of the Neighborhood Commission of both countries, together with his Ecuadorian counterpart, Gabriela Sommerfeld.
The possibility of asylum or escape from Peru was ruled out to the press by his personal lawyer, Juan Carlos Portugal.
However, dozens of people gathered in front of the Peruvian Embassy in Lima to protest against Boluarte and try to prevent the ousted president from entering the diplomatic headquarters of the neighboring country.
Boluarte faces at least eleven investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office for serious crimes against human rights and alleged corruption.
Among the events attributed to him is the death of more than 50 people during the repression of the wave of protests that demanded new elections after the arrest and preventive imprisonment of President Pedro Castillo, whom he succeeded as his vice president after the leftist carried out a failed coup attempt at the end of 2022.
Likewise, she is being investigated for allegedly receiving luxurious gifts such as undeclared Rolex watches, not reporting that she would be physically unable to hold office when she underwent a series of cosmetic surgeries, and allegedly covering up the escape of the leader of the Marxist party Perú Libre, with which she and Castillo won the 2021 elections.
The interim attorney general, Tomás Gálvez, anticipated that this Friday he will request that a judge prohibit Boluarte from leaving the national territory
The same right-wing parties that control the Peruvian Congress and that had supported her until now since she came to power, turned their backs on her and expressly dismissed her with a record vote in the recent history of these motions.
The majority of the leaders of these parties have presidential aspirations, such as Keiko Fujimori, daughter and political heir of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), or the ultra-conservative mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga, leader of the Popular Renewal party.
In his place, the president of Congress, José Jerí, of the right-wing Somos Perú, took over as interim head of state until the new elections already called for 2026.
Jerí is the seventh president of Peru since 2016, in a succession of leaders fallen due to political upheaval.