UPDATE
With 63 votes in favor, 20 against and 4 abstentions, Congress did not approve the disqualification of former minister Betssy Chávez.
However, after the vote, three reconsiderations have been presented, which implies that the Plenary Session will have to vote again on the 10-year disqualification against Betssy Chávez.
ORIGINAL NOTE
The accomplice of the coup may receive punishment from Congress this afternoon. The Plenary will debate and vote from 3:00 p.m. on the final report of Constitutional Complaint 351, which recommends charging Betssy Chávez, former prime minister of Pedro Castillo, for her participation in the attempted coup d’état of December 7, 2022.
The report proposes imposing 10 years of disqualification from exercising public office, for alleged violation of articles 38, 39 and 45 of the Constitution.
The Permanent Commission gave the green light last Monday for the final report to be seen today in Plenary.
The favorable vote of two-thirds of the number of members of Parliament is required, without the participation of the members of the Permanent Party, so that the person currently sheltered in the residence of the Mexican embassy is prevented from holding public office and excluded from participating in the 2026 general elections.
This is a complaint approved by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations on July 1 against the former chief of staff, and presented by Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos.
The legislator attached as evidence for her complaint the recording of Pedro Castillo’s message to the nation and a journalistic report indicating that Chávez had functions to carry out after the coup speech, which represented a series of constitutional infractions.
In the document, Chirinos specifies that the former prime minister violated articles of the Constitution referring to the duty to serve the nation, the exercise of power, and the duty to defend the Constitution, in addition to verifying that with her action on December 7 she paid obedience to a usurping government.
In addition to this complaint, Chávez is immersed in another final report approved by the SAC on November 7, also for this coup attempt, together with Pedro Castillo and the former Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta.
The document approved by a majority – 10 votes in favor and 3 against – proposes the 10-year disqualification of the three accused and which will be seen this Thursday in the Permanent Commission.
Chávez also faces a trial for the crime of rebellion for his participation in the coup, a process that is already in the closing arguments phase and for which the Prosecutor’s Office has requested that he be sentenced to 25 years in prison. The sentence of this trial could be known before this end of the month.
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