There are “indications that the president was forced to read the dissolution message, and whoever wrote the text did so to argue for the vacancy” of power, Bellido also said on Twitter. “We demand to determine who were the architects of this fall”.
While Parliament was to debate a third impeachment procedure once morest President Castillo since he came to power in July 2021, the one who was still at the head of the country made a solemn declaration on television, wearing the Presidential sash, announcing the dissolution of Parliament and the establishment of a state of emergency in the country.
According to Mr. Bellido “the psychological state of P. Castillo when he read the message to the nation is proof that he did not have all his faculties”. He calls for the carrying out of an “urgent toxicological test” and “the release of Prof. Pedro Castillo”, accompanying his message on Twitter with a photo alongside the ex-president with the message: “Fuerza presidente the people will set you free”.
This theory according to which Mr. Castillo would have acted under the influence has already been developed by one of his lawyers, Me Guillermo Olivera.
“What I know is that when the former president read this message written by other people, a few minutes before, he was given a drink, supposedly water, and following drinking the water, he felt dizzy,” Me Olivera told reporters outside his client’s place of detention. “Everyone saw that he was reading in a shaky way, and I suspect he was sedated,” he said.
Thursday at dawn, the police had carried out searches at the presidency and in certain ministries, in search of elements in the investigation opened once morest Mr. Castillo, in particular recordings of surveillance cameras.
