Pedro Castillo: Congress appeals failure and leaves payment of life pension

The Attorney General’s Office Congress of the Republic This afternoon presented an appeal to the judicial ruling that orders that power of the State to issue a new pronouncement to be awarded the life pension to former president Pedro Castillothe same that currently amounts to S/15,600 per month.

The ruling of the Second Transitory Constitutional Court of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, is recalled, the legislature also assumed the procedural costs generated by the lawsuit raised by the legal defense of the exmandatary coup.

In statements a Peru21the Attorney General of Parliament, Manuel Peña, recalled that he weighs a constitutional accusation for the alleged crimes of criminal organization, influence and collusion traffic “that has not been valued by the Superior Court of Justice, so, he said, he does not correspond to the life pension” at this time.

This accusation was approved by the Plenary of Parliament in February 2023 and was made by the then prosecutor of the Nation Patricia Benavides.

“The judge has not considered the arguments set forth on our part that are covered by Law No. 26519, which establishes in its second article that the right of constitutional presidents to enjoy a pension, equivalent to the total income of an activity in activity, is suspended in case the ex -president has formulated a constitutional accusation against him,” he said.

Peña added that the sentence orders Congress to issue a new pronouncement on the subject and this, he said, will not happen as long as there is not a sentence consent ultimately.

“Pedro Castillo’s lawyer can file an early ruling execution, but this becomes inejecutable for what we are commenting,” he continued.

“What is ordered is that a new resolution is issued, a new document by the Administration. As long as that is not made, it cannot be considered that that person has to be made,” he explained.

On the deadline in which the issue must be resolved in the judicial field, Peña indicated that this will depend on the procedural burden that the Chamber can have to which the case is incorporated in the second instance, but commented that in some cases its resolution can take seven or eight months.

Meanwhile, there will be no disbursement in favor of who on December 7, 2022 gave a coup d’etat, a fact for which he is currently prosecuted in the Judiciary and for which the Public Ministry has requested for him 34 years in jail. For now, Castillo is serving preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison.

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