The president of the Oversight Commission, Juan Burgos, did not rule out that the president of the Alliance for Progress party (APP), César Acuña, has given an order to remove him from office. This, because the Somos Perú bench will present, next Tuesday the 7th, a motion of censure against him.
Would the order come from César Acuña to change him from the Oversight Commission? “Of course, so that his lackeys obey,” Burgos responded after remembering that on December 24, the APEP leader asked to be sent to the Ethics Commission for having said that one of the hypotheses he was handling, in the Andrea Vidal case, was that there could have been an exchange of legislators’ votes in exchange for sex.
Burgos does not rule out that Acuña has given the order to remove him from office (Video: Juan Carlos Chamorro/Perú21)
“I have the video in which he (Acuña) says (that December 24) that he asked (Eduardo) Salhuana (president of Congress) to change him (from the position of head of Legal Counsel) to Mr. (Jorge) Torres Saravia, and asks that they send me to Ethics,” said Burgos.
For this reason, the head of the Audit Office did not rule out that the motion of censure that Somos Perú will present is related to the recommendation given by Acuña that they send it to Ethics. That is, the order would be to remove him from office by any means necessary.
“If they censure me it would be a compliment because (it would mean) that I am doing things well,” he indicated.
Juan Burgos spoke with Perú21 about the hand of APP and Acuña in their departure, and the next summons in Supervision.
ACUÑA RULES OUT PROMOTING IT
From Trujillo, Acuña declared to Canal N that he is not promoting the motion of censure against Burgos, and recalled that he has only requested that it be sent to Ethics.
“What I have said, and I insist again, is that the Ethics Commission takes into account what was stated by Burgos. Where they talk about votes by sex. That’s serious. It’s good that he is a congressman. But Parliament has the responsibility to defend its image,” Acuña said.
However, he did not hide his joy if Burgos is censored.
“If Congress believes it should censure him (Burgos) for those words, well censured,” he said.
For his part, the vice president of the Oversight Commission, Héctor Valer, a member of Somos Perú, confirmed to Perú21 that his bench will present a motion of censure against Burgos in the Permanent Commission on Tuesday the 7th.
He also said that the motion was not conceived by order of Acuña.
However, he did ask APP for their signatures, but he specified that the spokesperson for that group, Alejandro Soto, responded that he first has to have the consensus of his group.
As Peru21 learned, the motion of censure will be presented under two excuses: not having coordinated the agenda of the Oversight Commission with the congressmen and not respecting the work plan, and having advanced an opinion, without evidence, that one of the hypotheses of the investigation would be votes from congressmen in exchange for sex.
Regarding both arguments, Burgos pointed out that the commission’s agenda was developed according to the importance of the issues, and that the change of votes by sex is only one of several hypotheses.
