au CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. hm ‘oa MRA ERAS ef, courey pera ““ONFINENT? SUBJECT Political Situation in Peru NO. OF PAGES 1 WH, DATE DISTR. 1 Sovte-ber 1948 25X14 i NO, OF EN scaUIRED E98 fete S pare op SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1X . Senator Luis 4. Flores, leader o” the Union Revoluctonarta, has said that he "4 to accent the Cabinet position of “erad hin ty President }» because ho uns "not inte=ested" in euch a post at tho present Flores further quoted the Fresident as taline for the first tine of resige nation in discussing the petition of the Aprista Conrrescren to the Sunroce Court to doctare unconstitutional the Presidential Desres of 6 Aurust salting for a Constituent Assembly. Aecortinr to Flores, Bustanante stated that 1° tho petition vere sucooscful, he vould resign, and that he wie rankily Feaching the coneluston that’ ceru waa ungoversable. It 4a renortod that the four Coummist ‘Jeputiea havo boon rosetving "feolers* fron the Hovintento Civico Iniepondiente and other antiinrista rrowe, looking tovard the formation of an anti=torista front, The Conrunist deputies’ Cecidod to nake no coments or eomitnente until the eXtuntion had become nore cefinite, CUSSIGATION sack pes “sTRuTON— T —T See UT i I i a oo Approved For Release 1999/09/08 © CIA-RDP82-00457R001800680006-6