They don’t get bullets. Despite the serious questions weighing against them and the demand from various sectors –some of which come from their own caucus– for them to voluntarily withdraw from the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC)Congressmen Jorge Flores Ancachi, Darwin Espinoza and Ilich López refuse to step aside. They are three of the six Popular Action congressmen who would make up the so-called ‘Los Niños’ group, which would be part of the criminal organization that, according to the Public Ministry, would be headed by the president. peter castle. For now, the three participated yesterday in the session of the subcommittee in which the complaint of the Nation’s prosecutor against the president was reported.
THEY ARE JUDGE AND PART
The congressman for Fuerza Popular, Hernando Guerra Garciacommented that “when there are people who are in direct conflict with what is going to be voted on, out of decency they should step aside themselves”. However, he said that, since that did not happen, “the ones who can remove them are the other members of their bench.”
“We must sue the bench, the Popular Action leadership to make a decision in this regard”, he declared to Peru21.
On this same subject, the legislator Robert Chiabra He pointed out that, given the reluctance of the legislators to refrain from integrating the SAC, the Plenary of the Legislative should pronounce itself every time that “they cannot be judge and jury“, as “they are also engaged” in the case involving the president.
Consulted by this newspaper, Yván Montoya, former head of the Extradition Unit of the Anti-Corruption Attorney General’s Office, specified that the Code of Ethics for Public Functions applies to all State officials, including congressmen.
“Under this code, they (‘The Children’) have the obligation not to participate in a commission where issues involving their own interests are discussed. I even believe that there is a need to take this issue to the Ethics Commission of Congress, where they could even be suspended so that they do not participate.”, he stressed.
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- The AP bench will meet on Tuesday the 18th at noon to evaluate the situation of congressmen Flores, López and Espinoza in the subcommittee.
