He President of the Council of Ministers, Gustavo Adrianzén, spoke out regarding the constitutional complaint presented by the Prosecutor’s Office against Dina Boluarte and six other ministers for the murder and serious injuries of 160 people during the demonstrations that took place between 2022 and 2023. At the press conference this Wednesday, July 31, Adrianzén He described the demand as incoherent and noted that it is based on the same arguments as the previous complaint of genocide that has already been archived.
“How can you be so inconsistent“If you are saying that there is no genocide, and then you use the same arguments to (denounce) qualified homicide,” the prime minister said.We trust that Congress of the Republic, with the same rotundity with which He had previously dismissed the genocide complaintonce again proceed and order that there is no place to the formulation of a constitutional complaint for the case of qualified homicide,” he added.
According to the head of the ministerial cabinet, the presentation of the new complaint would reflect a lack of consistency in the strategy of the Public Ministry. But he emphasized that the The Government will remain committed to continuing the investigations on the deaths that occurred during the protests in December 2022 and January 2023. “Let this be absolutely clear, This has nothing to do with the President’s wishes. constitutional right for the investigations to continue. She herself has appeared before the relevant fiscal authorities to give her statement,” said Adrianzén.
Finally, at the same conference, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights demanded that the Public Prosecutor’s Office act coherently Regarding the new complaint against President Dina Boluarte, Eduardo Arana said that if the Prosecutor’s Office did not find sufficient arguments to file a complaint for genocide, it should not have sufficient arguments to file a charge of aggravated homicide.
“Here I want to make it clear that it is not about Let us defend the president, “What we are defending is legal logic. We are defending that there is coherence on the part of the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” he said. In addition, the head of the MINJUSDH asked the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress to consider whether the same complaint is being dealt with with different charges.
What is the constitutional complaint against Boluarte about?
The Office of the Attorney General filed a complaint with Congress against President Dina Boluarte for qualified homicide and serious and minor injuries, linked to the repression of the protests that took place between December 2022 and February 2023. These demonstrations, which took place in regions such as Apurímac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cusco, Junín, Ucayali, Puno, Lima and La Libertad, resulted in 44 deaths and 116 injuries.
The complaint also includes former presidents of the Council of Ministers Pedro Angulo and Luis Otárola, as well as former ministers of Defense and Interior. The Prosecutor’s Office argues that Boluarte and his ministers, having authority over law enforcementdid not take measures to prevent violence, which is considered a crime of improper omission with eventual intent. This is the second complaint against Boluarte for these events, after a previous one accusing her of genocide.
