The President Dina Boluarte adds a new tax investigation to its list. Following Alberto Otárola’s statements before the Congressional Oversight Commission, The Public Ministry opened investigations against the president for the alleged crime of omission of functions or abandonment of office by being absent from his presidential duties to undergo a surgical procedure (rhinoplasty).
The Legislature did not take long to speak out and far from rejecting the possible abandonment of office, they showed indifference. That was the case of congressman Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu. “I’m not worried. Let him continue his course. If he has committed a crime, let him pay for it. I don’t care what happens,” he exclaimed to the press.
Likewise, he minimized the search for a vacancy due to the proximity of the next elections. “Let the corresponding investigations be carried out. Let’s imagine that everything leads to a movement, time is running out. They are waiting for a vacancy, but where would we get with that. How much are the elections going to be brought forward? 15 days no more “he explained.
For his part, parliamentarian Américo Gonza encouraged people to remain discreet about the incident. “The truth has to be known. It seems that there are indications that he has not told the truth. First we have to determine if there was that operation. Then, we see if there was responsibility or not. Let’s not advance an opinion on the matter,” he told the media.
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Ministers denied alleged presidential absence
In the same line as Congress, From the Executive the impressions were the same. The prime minister,Gustavo Adrianzén, He assured that the president “has never abandoned her duties and much less has left said responsibility to anyone.”
Likewise, the Minister of Education,Morgan Querodenied any presidential absence. “The constitutional president of the Republic was always in charge of everything (…) she has never stopped working, she is always active, working, she is not absent, she has not taken any vacation, she has not had any space to rest,” he told RPP. .
Her counterpart from the Health Ministry, César Vásquez, did the same: “I don’t know, I’m not sure that the president has had surgery. I have not seen, nor have I been informed of, any surgery during my professional practice as president, when I was already a minister. What I know, and I make it clear, is that the president never stopped carrying out her duties,” he told the press.
