Lima, March 12 (EFE) .- The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, confirmed this Saturday that he will go to Congress next Tuesday to address a message to the plenary, one day following Parliament decides whether to debate a motion for impeachment in its once morest.
“Using my constitutional right, I will attend Congress to give a message,” Castillo wrote on his Twitter account.
The head of state added that he awaits the opening of the Parliament’s board of directors “to be present on Tuesday, March 15.”
The ruler thus responded to the initiative of several opposition groups in Congress to promote his dismissal for “moral incapacity”, as a result of allegations of alleged corruption, as well as the appointment of officials who do not meet the requirements for the position, according to support the legislators of Renovación Popular and Fuerza Popular, among other groups.
The motion brings together 20 points of accusation, ranging from the statement of a businesswoman who has linked the ruler with an alleged network of corruption, to the alleged links of a former minister with influence peddling in police and military bids and promotions.
SECOND ATTEMPT TO DISMISSAL
Parliament will evaluate on Monday if it admits the debate on the impeachment motion and will set a date for the plenary session to receive Castillo, or his lawyer, and later vote on his eventual departure from office, as happened at the end of 2021 without success.
For the motion to be admitted, the vote of a minimum of 52 of the 130 Peruvian legislators is required, which, if it happens, will force Castillo or his defense attorney to appear before the plenary session to answer for the accusations once morest him, as he did in 2020 the then president Martín Vizcarra, who was later impeached.
An eventual dismissal of the president will require the favorable vote of 87 of the members of Parliament.
CONGRESS DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE MANDATORY
In an interview with RPP, the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, said this Saturday that the president will explain what has been done so far in the Executive, following the arrival of Castillo to the Presidency, on July 28.
Torres affirmed that “the president is not permanently confronting Congress,” but rather that the parties in the Legislative “did not recognize the victory of President Castillo and they do not recognize it until now, because from the first moment they are looking for a way to empty him (remove him).”
Likewise, the head of the cabinet demanded “that they present proof that the president has received one sole (a coin) of something irregular, for a bribe (bribe).”
In the same sense, he criticized that the media have published the declaration of the aspiring effective collaborator of the prosecution, the businesswoman Karelim López, in which she affirms that Castillo leads a corrupt mafia inside the Government, but that they do not disseminate testimonies regarding the Odebrecht bribery scandal, where former presidents and opposition leader Keiko Fujimori are denounced.
However, Torres stressed that the Government has to request dialogue with Congress in order to solve the country’s problems in economic, social and educational matters, among others, because “there can be no other way for us human beings to come to an agreement.” .
SUPPORT FOR QUESTIONED MINISTERS
Regarding the interpellation and probable censorship of the heads of the portfolios of Health, Hernán Condori, and Justice, Fernando Yldefonso, the Prime Minister replied that they were working well, but that, if they were censored, their replacement by women professionals, given that the lack of gender parity has been another reason for criticism for the Executive.
“Let us understand that the country we receive (…) is a morally destroyed country, with top-quality education, top-quality health, it seems that the country had been bombed, but that comes from before,” said Torres.
The head of the cabinet also clarified that Castillo “did not endorse the ideology of Peru Libre”, the party with which he became president: “We have not promoted, nor will we promote, a planned economy from the State, which is Marxist-Leninist,” he indicated. .
“We are carrying out the social market economy, which respects individual property, the multiplicity of political parties, quite the opposite of the ideology of Vladimir Cerrón (founder of Peru Libre),” he specified.
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