The Minister of Culture and Congress Betsy Chávez denounced the Attorney General of Peru, Patricia Benavides, before Congress after presenting a constitutional lawsuit against President Pedro Castillo for allegedly leading a criminal organization. Chávez has denounced Benavides before the Legislature for being part of "a systematic plan to destabilize the Government."
It is the first time in 200 years that an accusation against the president of the country. This questions that since the government of the current president began, in July 2021, an architecture of delivery of works and jobs in exchange for perks was built and that in said organization, which is supposedly directed by Pedro Castillo, are the former ministers Juan Silva and Geiner Alvarado, his nephews, his wife Lilia Paredes, his sister-in-law (detained since last August) and the former secretary of the Government Palace, Bruno Pacheco.
In the complaint of the attorney general against the head of state, Pedro Castillo, which has 376 pages, the Government is accused of using the Police and Intelligence agencies to persecute and erase evidence that involves the criminal network of which it was . "The execution of a new type of coup d'état has begun in Peru," said the president, while denying all the protests against him.
offenses not contemplated
ABC agreed to the document of the Minister of Culture, Betsy Chávez, when she said that "the constitutional complaint presented a form of fiscal requirement for the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, to be accused, expressly mentions crimes not contemplated within article 117 of our Political Constitution, which prohibits or does not allow the dignitary to accuse himself beyond four explicit assumptions, showing that far from acting objectively and within the constitutional framework, he would be putting the Public Ministry as part of a systemic plan to destabilize the Government , that is, to transmit a purely political connotation to its fiscal action”.
According to the text, as a public official, Benavides is obliged to frame her actions according to the Principle of Legality, in the sense that she can only request or require measures that the law (in this case, the Constitution) expresses her authority to do. “Which does not happen in this case. The official in question, despite the express text of the Magna Carta that already makes it clear that it is not appropriate to subject the President of the Republic to the procedure of constitutional accusation”, acts against Castillo, according to the document that he sent to the Legislative where he denounces to the attorney general, who already has a list of requests to be denounced for malpractice in office.
Successive political crises
The constitutional complaint filed against the president opened a Pandora's box in a country of successive political crises. Since 2016, no president has completed his five-year term in office. Peru has seen Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Martín Vizcarra, Manuel Merino, Francisco Sagasti pass. In July 2021, after the pandemic -which left more than 200.000 dead-, the rural teacher Pedro Castillo was elected.
