Peruvian President Dina Boluarte called for a multiparty dialogue to help resolve her country's political crisis, saying two months of sometimes deadly anti-government protests had left the nation a "fragile democracy."
"We are living in a fragile democracy," said Boluarte, who has refused to resign and failed in a bid to convince Congress to bring forward elections slated for 2026.
"I think it is the most fragile in Latin America, but it is within Peruvians, within us, to strengthen democracy," Boluarte told reporters at a press conference alongside her cabinet ministers.
Boluarte is Peru's sixth president since March 2018 and the first woman to hold this position.