The Permanent Commission of the Congress of Peru approved this Thursday the final report of two constitutional complaints that recommends the disqualification for 10 years of Betssy Chávez, former prime minister of the leftist former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), granted asylum by Mexico before the trial for the failed coup attempt at the end of 2022.
These are two new constitutional complaints that the permanent commission raised to the plenary session of Parliament, after it did not obtain enough votes to disqualify Chávez in a first motion, voted on Wednesday.
On this day, the Permanent Commission debated and voted on the second conclusion of the final report of constitutional complaints 547 and 575, which also recommends the disqualification of Chávez for a period of 10 years from the exercise of public office.
Former President Pedro Castillo and former Minister of the Interior Willy Huerta are also included in this process, but both requested the rescheduling of their hearings before Congress to exercise their defense, as explained by the president in charge of the Presidency of Parliament, Fujimori Fernando Rospigliosi.
The president of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations, Lady Camones, supported the report that concludes that Chávez played “a determining role” in the actions that favored the strategy of then-president Castillo on December 7, 2022, which contributed to the breakdown of the constitutional order.
Among the facts exposed, Camones detailed that the former prime minister personally led the team from the TV Perú channel to the presidential office in the Government Palace, despite the fact that said coordination corresponded to specialized offices and not to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
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This journalistic team transmitted Castillo’s message to the nation in which he announced the closure of Parliament, the intervention of the Judiciary and the government through decrees on a temporary basis, among other measures that did not come to fruition.
The report presented by Camones also warned that Chávez did not show any opposition to the message to the nation issued by Castillo, and thus violated the articles of the Constitution related to the preservation of democracy, institutions and the rule of law.
Camones clarified that the objective of the parliamentary process is to determine the political and constitutional responsibility of the accused, but that this procedure does not address the commission of criminal crimes, since those accused are already subject to justice for the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy.
The report approved this Thursday will be debated in the plenary session of Congress to determine whether the constitutional accusation against Chávez proceeds, who remains in the residence of the Mexican Embassy in Lima waiting to receive safe conduct that will allow him to leave the country.
As a result of his asylum, Peru broke diplomatic relations with Mexico, which were already reduced to the level of chargé d’affaires due to that country’s refusal to recognize the legitimacy of then-president Dina Boluarte (2022-2025) when replacing Castillo.
With information from EFE.
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