Crisis in Peru: the CIDH will return in January to analyze the situation after the repression that left 27 dead

A mission from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will return to Peru in January to complete its assessment of the situation in the country afterward the seizure unleashed after the dismissal of President Pedro Castillo which caused 27 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

“Peru has formalized an invitation to a high-level mission of the CIDH so that, based on the work carried out in the technical visit from 20 to 22 December, finish your work with the full cooperation of the Peruvian authorities,” the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

He added that this mission will visit Peru on a date in January it will define both sides.

Last week a CIDH delegation assessed the political and social crisis. Last Thursday he met Castillo in the prison that houses him in Lima and then his relatives.

He was also with President Dina Boluarte, who succeeded Castillo; the ombudsman, representatives of human rights organizations, the president of Congress, governors, military leaders and relatives of the deceased.

Castle filed an interim injunction with the IACHR in which he claims that there were irregularities in his arrest. His attorney, Wilfredo Robles, has expressed concern about an alleged delay by the IACHR in addressing the appeal.

Protests in Peru erupted after Castillo was removed from the presidency by Congress after he tried to dissolve Parliament.

The former governor was arrested and remains in custody while the authorities investigate him alleged rebellion and conspiracy. Protesters are calling for new elections, the closure of Congress and the resignation of Boluarte. Those closest to Castillo are also calling for his release.

The proposal of the executive

Boluarte’s government of Peru has introduced a bill to Congress “urgently” which proposes to appoint the Speaker of Parliament to head the Presidency when head of state you are out of the country and there is no interim vice president, as at the moment.

The proposal, presented to the Congressional Constitution and Regulations Committee, would allow the current holder of the lower house, Joseph Williamshe will replace Dina Boluarte when she has to leave the country to carry out activities abroad, RPP radio station reported.

Boluarte assumed the presidency of Peru on December 7 as vice president following the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo by Parliament.

In this way, the President of the Congress can carry out the representative and administrative functions that allow the normal performance of the Presidency, even though he cannot perform acts of government.

“It is constitutionally sound to conclude that it should be the president of Congress who should assume the office of president in the event that the president of the republic goes overseas and their vice presidents are prevented from assuming that office,” it read. The Europa Press news agency took over the bill.

“Now, it being understood that it is a ‘sui generis’ scenario that the holder of a state power (in this case, of the legislative power) assumes the office of the presidential office (…) does not suppose, in any context, that the President of the Republic of Peru in office can perform various actions those of an administrative or representative nature,” he says.

This proposal comes after the clashes between Congress and the previous Executive, chaired by Castillo, who -for example- on four occasions the legislator denied him permission so that he would attend engagements abroad, claiming he was being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office and that there was a flight risk.

Clarín writing with the information of the agencies

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