For the former congresswoman Indira Huilathe complaint filed by the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidesin Congress against President Pedro Castillo is one more step in the “institutional and constitutional deterioration” that our country is going through.
In its column for La República entitled “The Constitution that everyone respects today”Huilca describes as a “maneuver” the accusation of the head of the Public Ministry and that she moves on a “slippery ground”, in reference to the fact that she seeks to interpret article 117 of the Magna Carta to remove the head of Condition.
“It is not the first time that the possibility of modifying article 117 of the Constitution of 1993 has been discussed. In this regard, a constant has been the resistance of the majority of right-wing groups to open a broad debate to reform integral aspects of the Constitution, in particular what concerns the political regime, even less the economic or social rights”, develops the former congresswoman.
However, he emphasizes that despite the fact that this constitutional complaint is “encouraged by coup sectors”, President Pedro Castillo together with his close circle must be investigated, without appealing to a “victimization discourse” or “protecting themselves on arbitrariness”.
“Apart from the fiscal maneuver —encouraged by coup sectors and admitted by a “center” that is increasingly leaning to the right—, it must be clear that President Castillo must be investigated (…). Neither the closest circle of him nor the president himself would have to take refuge in these arbitrariness to raise a discourse of victimization and not respond to justice and the citizenry, ”Huilca explained.
Finally, he stressed that the activation of the Democratic Charter is a “mechanism provided for in the inter-American institutional framework” and that it opens a space for dialogue on the crisis facing Peru; but that in our context “barely serves to highlight the failure of all political actors.”
