López Obrador could cancel the Pacific Alliance summit due to the absence of Pedro Castillo

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), announced this Monday, November 21, that the Pacific Alliance summit, scheduled for the 25th of the same month, could be canceled due to the absence of his Peruvian counterpart, Pedro Castillo.

The president argued that in said meeting they had agreed relieve Mexico of the presidency of the Summit from Peru, which was maintained as transitory or temporary.

“It is very probable that the meeting of the countries of the Pacific Alliance will be canceled because they did not give the president of Peru permission to attend,” the president announced in his traditional conference with the press.

“I am the transitory, the temporary of the alliance and it is up to the president of Peru to receive the presidency. So if (Pedro Castillo) does not come, who do I hand him over to? ”, He added.

As recalled, the Congress of the Republic denied Castillo to travel to Mexico for the summit; this being the third time that Parliament rejected a trip abroad after the refusal to travel to Colombia and the Vatican.

This situation was criticized by Andrés Manuel López Obrador who labeled the Peruvian parliamentarians and the supposed “elite” who would seek to remove him as “racists”.

For this reason, the Mexican president considered coming to Peru and holding a meeting to deliver the presidential post to Pedro Castillo. Likewise, he clarified that the bilateral diplomatic meetings with the president of Chile are still ongoing, gabriel boric that of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chavez and that of Honduras, Xiomara Castro.

“I am going to have bilateral meetings (…) but not necessarily this meeting of the Pacific Alliance,” he concluded.

Source-larepublica.pe