The former chief of staff appears before the SAC, where she offers her defenses regarding the constitutional complaint filed by the National Prosecutor against her after the coup d’état by Pedro Castillo.
Betsy Chavez, former holder of the Presidency of the Council of Ministersaffirmed that he was unaware of the message that the former president read Pedro Castillo Terrones on December 7, 2022, the date on which he tried to perpetrate a coup. During his presentation to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC)the congresswoman also pointed out that the former president asked Chinese Chavez convene the then ministers of State before the third vacancy motion is debated.
The former chief of staff also explained that Terrones Castle was the person who requested that “will call the press of TV Peru for an official activity”. He says that after the arrival of the journalists, by that time some former ministers had already arrived before the call. Among them, he states that there were Emilio Bobbio (Defense) and Willy Orchard (Interior), as well as Hannibal Torres.
“The press lady asks if it is going to be an interview or not and the president tells me that it is going to be a message to the Nation. The president at that moment was already in his suit. When he was in his suit, he told his aides-de-camp to put on the presidential sash. So, We assumed that it was going to be a pronouncement that he had had a day before, where he also announced a situation with a view to the issue of the vacancy motion. on Wednesday, December 7 at 3:00 pm,” commented Betssy Chávez.
“In this framework, the young journalist does the counting and President Castillo begins to read a message that, truth be told, no one was aware of what he read because he took it out at that moment and those are the events that happened,” he added.
As reported, on January 27, the SAC evaluated the constitutional complaint presented by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidesagainst the former president of the Council of Ministers Betsy Chavez for the alleged crime of rebellion. The congresswoman was also summoned to said session; however, she was absent due to health problems. Therefore, the audience was rescheduled for this Monday January 30th.
It is worth noting that the constitutional complaint against Chinese Chavez it also reaches ex-ministers Willy Huerta and Roberto Sanchezwho are also charged as alleged co-perpetrators of the crime of rebellion for the coup that Castillo Terrones tried to perpetrate.
