With 19 votes in favor, 3 against and 9 abstentions, the Permanent Commission of the Congress of Peru report approved declaring the appeal against the President admissible Peter Castillo for the alleged crimes of criminal association, criminal association and trafficking in influence.
This means that the constitutional complaint that the prosecution has filed against the president continues to move towards its final treatment in the plenary session of Parliament.
Now a subcommittee on constitutional charges will have 15 working days to carry out an investigation and present a report on the charge complaint that also reaches the former ministers of transport and housing, Juan Silva and Geiner Alvarado respectively.
The nation’s Attorney General Patricia Benavides filed the complaint with Congress, and it went to a subcommittee of 25 lawmakers that spent weeks weighing whether to accept it for processing. Something that finally happened on November 10th, raise the matter to the Standing Committee who also gave his approval, this Thursday.
A new complaint
That’s not the only grievance facing the president.
A Peruvian civil association presented this Wednesday before Congress another constitutional complaint against Castillo and members of his cabinet, including the prime minister, Aníbal Torres, for raising a confidence issue for repeal a law limiting the referendum.
The Civil Association for Integrity has presented this complaint to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of the Parliament, deeming that the president and his Council of Ministerss acted “unconstitutionally” on November 17thwhen Torres went to the plenary to ask for a vote of confidence.
The premier has used this constitutional mechanism for a project of the Executive which is relaunching repeal the rule that limits the rights of participation and control of citizenship, by referendum, in constitutional reforms.
About twenty complaints
As reported last Monday by the president of the legislature, José Williams, Castillo accumulates twenty complaints to Congress, of which “only three were introduced by members of Congress, one by the Attorney General, and sixteen by citizens.”
However, the Constitutional Court (TC) ordered the legislature on Tuesday to set aside the complaint against the president who proposes to disqualify him for five years from “betrayal” for declaring that Peru could facilitate an outlet to the sea for Bolivia.
The high court found that the report approved by the subcommittee on constitutional charges referred to this complaint It does not comply with parameters of reasonableness, fails to comply with due motivation and “makes no reference to any objective element” which allows the conclusion that Castillo intends to cede part of the national territory to the neighboring country.
In contrast, the constitutional appeal filed by the attorney general, Patricia Benavides, against the head of state for alleged corruption continues to advance on its parliamentary pathas a prelude to a possible debate and vote in plenary.
Source: agencies and newspaper El Comercio
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