The Permanent Commission of Congress debates and votes this Tuesday on the final report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC), which recommends disqualifying former President Pedro Castillo from holding public office for 10 years, due to the coup d’état of December 7, 2022. The document also recommends the same sanction for the former Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta.
In the session, which will begin at 9 in the morning, the president of the SAC, Lady Camones, will support the report that establishes that the former president, today imprisoned in the Barbadillo prison, violated various articles of the Constitution by attempting to break the constitutional order by ordering the dissolution of Parliament and the intervention of other powers of the State.
Last Thursday, it is recalled, the Permanent Commission approved, by a large majority, one part of this final report referring to the former president of the Council of Ministers Betssy Chávez. In his case, his disqualification was supported. The case must now be argued before the Plenary Session on a date and time to be set by the Board of Directors.
That day, the recommendations referring to Pedro Castillo and the former head of the Interior Willy Huerta could not be debated or put to a vote because both requested a rescheduling. In the case of the former president for lacking a lawyer.
Basics
According to the report, Castillo violated the Constitution by carrying out a coup d’état through a message to the nation in which, in addition to dissolving the Legislative Branch, he announced the establishment of an emergency government and the reorganization of the justice system.
The document also mentions previous events, among them that the former president ordered the mandatory social immobilization of April 5, 2022 in Lima and Callao — which was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.
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