The State Attorney General’s Office took action on the matter after the controversial participation of the attorney general CongressYuri García, and the deputy Manuel Peña, after the participation that both jurists had before the constitutional Court (TC), in defense of the treason complaint against the president Pedro Castillo.
This Wednesday, they opened the “prior evaluation stage” against both prosecutors. “The Attorney General’s Office has as its central function to ensure the efficient exercise of the legal defense of the State, within the scope of its powers, as well as to exercise the actions of evaluation, supervision, control, inspection, instruction and disciplinary administrative sanction of the attorneys of all levels of government and other system operators, in the case of functional aspects in the exercise of their activity.
It is in question whether Peña and García complied with these points when they defended the complaint of treason against the Head of State before the TC. The “prior evaluation stage” is a process that precedes the internal investigation to which they will be subjected, according to sources from the Attorney General’s Office told La República.
This newspaper called Attorney Peña by phone, but at the close of this note he did not respond to our communications. Nor did his counterpart García answer.
The statement from the Attorney General
The opposition in Congress has been dissatisfied with the role of Peña and García in their defense of the treason complaint. The Board of Directors, chaired by José Williams Zapata, announced, due to this, the reorganization of the “legal and jurisdictional defense system of Congress.”
They seek to remove both prosecutors. The problem, Parliament sources explained, is that they are appointed personnel. It is not a decision that takes effect overnight.
Tuesday was held at the constitutional Court the hearing of habeas corpus presented by the legal defense of President Castillo against the complaint by treason
The magistrate Gustavo Gutierrez Ticse He asked the attorney García what was the act committed by the president to demonstrate that he committed treason.
“What this report (the one from the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress) considers is the apparent intentions that Mr. Castillo had before being president and his pronouncement given at the national and international level, being already president,” García said.
Judge Gutiérrez asked him, then, if the president could be sanctioned only based on an opinion that he declared before the press. “Do you believe that opinion is a crime? (…) Or did the president take further action after giving his opinion in the media?” the judge insisted.
“Materially, we have not put it in the report. As you said, there is no material act,” Garcia replied. He could not present any further arguments.
