The Permanent Commission of Congress is about to be approved, this Wednesday 16, the report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations that recommends accusing President Pedro Castillo of treason and disqualify him for five years from any public function. In this way, the parliamentarians who want to remove the head of state from power are getting ready to take a new step in this process.
The Permanent Commission is made up of 33 members of Congress, including the members of the Board of Directors. Its conformation maintains the proportion of the benches in the Plenary.
The Popular Force bench has seven legislators; Free Peru, four; Popular Action, four; Advance Country, three; Popular Renewal, three; Alliance for Progress (APP), two; We can Peru, two; Magisterial Block, two; Democratic Peru, two; We are Peru, one; Democratic Change-Together for Peru, one; Integrity and Development, one; and the Peru Bicentennial group has one member.
At least 20 parliamentarians from the Standing Committee would vote in favor of the report which proposes accusing Castillo and disqualifying him. Instead, another 12 members would be against.
Those who would vote in favor would be the seven from Fuerza Popular, three from Acción Popular, three from Renovación Popular, two from APP, two from Avanza País and one from Somos Perú. Legislator Norma Yarrow, from Avanza País, would not speak out because she took on the complaint in the case.
If you add to this current We can Peruwhich has not yet defined its position, there would be 20 votes.
Against the report they would be the congressmen of Free Peru (four), Democratic Peru (three), Magisterial Bloc (two), Democratic Change-Together for Peru (one)Integrity and Development (one) and Peru Bicentennial (one), totaling 12 votes.
Pedro Castillo will exercise his defense on November 16. Photo: Presidency
While, Castillo’s lawyer, José Palomino, announced that he will request that the complaint not go to the Permanent Commission, because the term of the ordinary legislature to see the complaint expired on July 15.
“When the subcommittee approved it, the ordinary legislature had already expired,” Palomino argued on the TV Peru station.
In addition, he questions that the legislator Lady Camonespresident of Constitutional Accusations, She did not refrain from voting, as she had requested, despite the fact that she showed him that she had advanced her opinion.
Castle Resources in TC
The Constitutional Court (TC) will review tomorrow, Tuesday the 15th, two petitions for habeas corpus from the president Pedro Castillo Terrones against the Congress of the Republic.
One lawsuit was filed against the Parliamentary Prosecutor’s Office and the second against the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations. The last one seeks to annul the process for alleged treason against Castillo.
