The former head of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) Aída García-Naranjo stated that the current Congress could have reformed article 117 of the Constitution long ago to allow the President of the Republic to be accused of crimes of corruption .
The minister during the Government of Ollanta Humala added that the objectives of the majority of parliamentarians would point towards a direction that avoids a way out of the political crisis that the country is experiencing. The return of the bicamerality, for example.
“The Congress, at the moment, is in its third ordinary legislature. A constitutional reform can be done with two continuous legislatures. Why, in Fujimori’s Constitution, if they have wanted to modify 53 articles to be re-elected and have a Senate, why didn’t they modify article 117 including the issue of corruption? Because it was a Constitution to shield Fujimori,” García-Naranjo said on Canal N.
The former official recalled that the fight in the streets against the crimes committed by the dictator Alberto Fujimori served to promote a constitutional process in 1993 that includes the controversial article 117 that is being discussed today as a result of the crimes that President Castillo would have committed, according to the Public ministry.
“Perhaps there we go to the substantive issue linked to the OAS issue (about its visit to Peru). In other words, we have a Constitution that promoted corruption and, indeed, we have constituents who drafted a Constitution with Article 117, which is the one that is now being discussed every day.”
It is necessary to remember that, currently, the head of state can only be accused during his administration of treason against the fatherland; prevent presidential, parliamentary, regional or municipal elections; dissolve the Parliament or prevent the meeting or operation of the Congress or the National Elections Jury and other bodies of the electoral system.
