The president of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress, Lady Camonesestimated that the constitutional complaint against the president peter castle presented by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidezwould be debated in plenary in 3 months.
“It is a process that will take time. (…) The delegate congressman (of the complaint) is the one who is going to state who is going to be summoned as witnesses, what evidence is going to be evaluated. Depending on the number of witnesses presented by the delegated congressman, as in accordance with the rights of defense and due process, those who are accused will have to present their own witnesses. If they are a high number, adequate time will have to be given to be able to listen to them and to call hearings. I would be estimating from 2 and a half to 3 months”, Camones told Canal N.
The former president of Congress specified that “if the legislature ends, the work of the subcommittee will not stop.” “Since the SAC is a subcommittee that depends on the Permanent Commission, and since this commission never stops working, the same thing happens with the subcommittee.”
Camones Soriano avoided giving an opinion on the limits established by article 117 of the Constitution on the crimes for which the acting president can be accused during his term.
“We are going to give an account tomorrow (Friday the 14th) of the presentation of this complaint by the National Prosecutor and we have 2 weeks to make the evaluation with the lawyers who are part of the staff of this subcommission. I could not give at this time a preview of what the reasons or grounds are going to be to declare a complaint admissible or inadmissible. That evaluation will be given in these 10 days, ”she added.
