The Congress of Peru approved this Wednesday to suspend for 120 days the parliamentarian Freddy Díaz, who is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly raping a worker of this state power.
Source: EFE
With 99 votes in favor, 0 against and 4 abstentions, the Peruvian legislature decided to apply the maximum suspension to Díaz, after giving the green light to the final report of the Ethics Commission of the Parliament that recommends this sanction for 120 days against the legislator.
Diaz himself, who is weighed down by a judicial order preventing him from leaving the country, voted in favor of his suspension.
The parliamentary debate, prior to the vote, took place in a secret and reserved session, as agreed by the Board of Spokespersons of Parliament “because it is an issue related to personal privacy”, according to the first vice president of Congress, the Fujimorist Martha Moyano.
Díaz’s case became known at the end of July, when a Legislative worker denounced him for rape in an act that he would have committed in the parliamentary offices.
Since then, the congressman, who was expelled from the Alliance for Progress party, has denied the accusations and has continued to attend parliamentary sessions normally.
Today’s vote, which was not accessible to the press, approved the final report of the Ethics Commission, which last week concluded that on the night of July 26 and the early hours of the 27th, Díaz drank liquor in his office and that, according to his own testimony, he had sexual relations with the victim, who was fired after denouncing him.
The document also indicates that the legislator, after being criminally denounced by the worker, did not attend the initial summonses from the Prosecutor’s Office or the National Police, which was described as “ethical misconduct” that has attacked “against the good image and reputation” of Congress.
