The president of the Peruvian Congress, María del Carmen Alva, said last year that President Pedro Castillo will be removed from office, but legislators will remain in their posts, according to an audio recording leaked on social networks this Friday.
“We’re only going to impeach the president,” says Alva in the audio tape, the authenticity of which was confirmed at a press conference by the Legislature, where he was accused of being the victim of a wiretap.
In the opinion of the parliamentary leader, this audio was deliberately leaked to cover up another alleged scandal involving the Peruvian president.
In the tape, which Alva says is from September or October of last year, just two months after Castillo took office, an unidentified congresswoman first rejects the approach of an unidentified woman to impeach Peruvian vice president Dina Boluarte.
Referring to the preferences of citizens who have shown great dissatisfaction with both since last year, “There is a big difference, the people are with us, they are from Congress, they are not from Castillo, we are a thousand times more.” Executive and Congress by all polls.
Alva, one of Castillo’s most notorious opponents, later noted that a group of constitutionalists had told him that if the executive were removed from office, only presidential elections should be held, and that Fujimorist Patricia Juárez, head of the Constitutional Commission, had already stood for election. I had a project in this direction.
“If, after six or eight months, circumstances arise under which I have to assume (the Peruvian presidency) and make[elections]I’ll do it as president of Congress, go back to being a congressman, neither stay nor leave,” he says. Alva in the leaked audio file.
At Friday’s press conference, the Speaker of the Legislature stated that “there is no plan” to impeach Castillo and only clarified Article 115 of the Constitution, which states that the president can be replaced by a deputy “due to temporary disability” and “permanent” and If both are blocked, the President of Congress assumes the task.
“If the obstacle is permanent, the president of Congress will call an election immediately,” he said.
In this regard, Alva said at the time he thought Congress should stay until the end of his term in 2026, but now believes that general elections should be held “if there is a problem”. may be called.
“If we all have to go for Castillo to go, we will go,” he stressed, noting that the polls confirm that “people want a change” in the political class.
The congressional president also questioned the release of his voice a day after the opposition and local media released a transcript of another “sound bomb” allegedly linked to a government corruption scheme.
Peruvian media published a report yesterday allegedly offering a bribe to former Transport Minister Juan Silva to get the contract for the bridge construction of businessman Zamir Villaverde, who was imprisoned during the corruption investigation.
Collaborating with authorities in the investigation of the case, Villaverde involved President Castillo in an alleged corruption conspiracy in the current Executive, although he has so far provided no evidence of his allegations.
Castillo is under preliminary investigation for several allegations, and Peruvian attorney general Pablo Sánchez last Sunday ordered the expansion of investigations into allegations of criminal organization crimes, aggravated influence trading and aggravated collusion.
Castillo’s lawyer, Benji Espinoza, called for the “absolute nullity” of these investigations to be declared this Tuesday, and announced that if his request is not granted, he will demand “protection of rights” at the governor’s discretion. absolute immunity while on duty.
source: Noticias
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