In statements to the press, the president said that the Constitution specifies that her responsibility as head of the Executive is “until 2026” to conclude the term of Castillo, elected last year with her as vice president.
But he added that “if society and the situation warrant it, we will advance elections, in conversation with the democratic and political forces of Congress, we will sit down to talk.”
Likewise, when asked about the request for asylum made by the detained former president Castillo to Mexico, Boluarte replied that “whatever the right of asylum says for the former president and his family will have to be validated by the Mexican government.”
She reiterated that Castillo carried out “a coup d’état” last Wednesday, which surprised even her ministers who resigned “in a cascade”, but that she “would like to visit him at some point and find out what happened.”
They accuse Mexico of interference
On Friday, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry summoned the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, to convey to him its rejection of the “expressions of the Mexican authorities” which, in the government’s opinion, “constitute interference in the internal affairs” of Peru.
“The expressions of the Mexican authorities constitute an interference in the internal affairs of Peru and are not consistent with the events that have occurred in recent days,” said a statement from the Foreign Ministry, currently without a titular minister, after the resignation of César Landa. , who left office accusing Castillo of carrying out a coup and asking for international help to stop him.
The information clarified that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed to Monroy “the strangeness that the expressions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard have generated in Peru, regarding the political processes in the country.”
Regarding the right to asylum invoked by Castillo, “Ambassador Monroy was told of the need for states to abide by the standards contained in current international treaties on the matter and comply with all the requirements that they establish.”
López Obrador revealed on Thursday in his morning conference that Castillo phoned to request asylum at the Mexican Embassy in the Andean country.
“He spoke here to the office so that they would notify me that he was going to the Embassy, that he was going to request asylum and that they would open the door of the Embassy for him, but surely they had already tapped his phone,” said López Obrador.
In addition, he said that he instructed Ebrard to speak with the Mexican ambassador in Peru and open the door for Castillo to request asylum.
“But shortly after they took over the embassy with police and citizens, they surrounded the embassy. And he couldn’t even get out, they arrested him immediately,” he said.
Castillo was arrested “in the act” by his own escort, minutes after being removed from office by Congress.
-With information from EFE.
