The Plenary of Congress did not approve -with 67 votes against, 42 votes in favor and five abstentions- authorize the President of the Republic, peter castleleave the country from August 6 to 8 for the inauguration of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.
peter castle had requested the Congress to authorize his departure from the national territory from August 6 to 8 to travel to the city of Bogotá, in Colombia, in order to attend the command ceremony of the new head of state of this country, Gustavo Petro. According to the Constitutionthe Parliament is the one who authorizes him to be absent from the national territory.
In this regard, Congressman Alexander Munantefrom the Popular Renovation bench, commented that he voted against this request “to be consistent with the opposition” to the president’s government peter castlealso for the five tax investigations in which the president is immersed.
“It has been a message from this Congress not only for Peru, but for the international community: we cannot allow a person with five complaints in the National Prosecutor’s Office to go abroad to represent all Peruvians. Today Peruvians they do not feel represented by President Castillo,” he said.
The parliamentarian regretted that the president peter castle decided to remain silent during the interrogation to which he was subjected by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidezin the framework of the investigation that follows him for his alleged interference in a process of promotion of officers of the Armed Forces and the Police.
For his part, the official legislator Waldemar Cerron (Free Peru) described as an “excess” of the opposition in Congress that did not authorize the president peter castle leave the country from August 6 to 8 to Colombia. Likewise, he considered that it is not correct to speak of a possible flight or escape of the president, because he appeared before the Prosecutor’s Office.
“The opposition, taking advantage of the votes they have, mistreat the president. This is leaving a precedent that later any president will be subject to an impediment to leave the country. I think there has been an excess, but it is a decision of Congress. I think the population is going to show a reaction,” he said.
During the debate, the legislator adriana tudelafrom Avanza País, presented the considerations for which the president should not be allowed peter castle leave the country, since in the current circumstances the indications of corruption are “overwhelming and abundant”.
In that context, he said, “the danger of flight becomes more real.” “He attends a protocol act, so it is not necessary for him to travel, and the Foreign Minister can very well go. Our responsibility is that the president render accounts to the people he claims to represent,” he said.
Immediately, Alexander Soto, from Alliance for Progress, indicated that it is necessary to take into account that the president is immersed in five tax investigations. He stated that this trip is protocol and will not alter the relations we have with the sister country of Colombia.
Added to this position Hector Ventura (Popular Force), which underlined the “obvious danger of flight” of President Castillo and, in addition, said that he no longer represents the majority of Peruvians, since he has five complaints in the Public ministrythree of them for corruption.
For her part, the parliamentarian Katy Ugartefrom the bench Free Peru, maintained that there are no reasons to oppose this authorization because the president collaborates with the prosecution’s complaints and “he would never do that” (escape); He asked that “they don’t get carried away by hatred” and by conspiracy theories, because we are going to make an international “paper.”
Similarly, Congressman Elijah Varas (Perú Bicentenario) said that there are no reasons to “make ourselves look bad abroad”, and asked his colleagues to reflect, that “hate does not cloud their reason”. In his turn, Pedro Martínez (Popular Action) lamented that Congress is playing the political game of victimizing the president in the eyes of the people.
Pedro Castillo asked to authorize a trip to Colombia
Days ago, the president peter castle requested the Congress of the republic to authorize his departure from the national territory from August 6 to 8 to travel to the city of Bogotá, in Colombia, in order to attend the command ceremony of the new head of state of this country, Gustavo Petro.
Said request was presented this Monday, August 1 through a letter addressed to the president of the National Parliament, Lady Camoneswhich was signed by the head of state and the president of the Council of Ministers, Hannibal Torres.
The document specifies that the attendance of the President of the Republic at this ceremony will strengthen the historic ties of brotherhood and cooperation between both countries, giving continuity to a bilateral work agenda aimed at identifying priority issues of common interest for the benefit of the populations of both states.
Attached to the official letter is the draft legislative resolution to authorize the temporary departure of the Head of State from the temporary territory on August 6, 7 and 8 of this year, as well as the invitation made by the Foreign Ministry of Colombia to the Peruvian president.
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The legislator said that there were economic interests behind the project approved by insistence in the plenary session of Parliament. On the other hand, legislator Alex Paredes, from the ruling Magisterial Block, justified his group’s support for the project’s insistence despite the fact that the government observed the law.