The “right”, the economic powers and the media, are among the main arguments of Congressman Jaime Quito to explain the crisis dragging the Government of Pedro Castillo Terrones. In this interview he adds that the opponents managed to separate the president from the Free Peru party and that for this reason the appropriate people were not appointed.
The impression is that President Castillo’s message was not in tune with reality. What opinion does he have?
What has been missing in the message has been a clear position to advance towards a Constituent Assembly and provide a solution to these aberrant problems that neoliberal policy has generated for so many years. A model that has benefited the groups of economic power in our country.
Nor was Castillo self-critical about the investigations of his relatives and close personnel. How do you take that attitude of denying everything?
As a man of law in the face of acts of corruption that may occur, it is evident that he will ask for a sanction. What worries me is that the media have become a propaganda entity for the right to retake the country using any instrument. They want to present reliable facts and pass themselves off as judges and sentence. In Peru, 10 years have passed and the people of Odebrecht, despite the fact that there is a set of evidence, are not in jail. I salute that the Prosecutor’s Office sees this case so quickly. But it is important that the investigation can continue and that the corresponding tests come out and an evaluation will be made to that extent.
What awaits the Government with the new board of directors of Congress?
Do not try to whitewash this table, because it is Fujimori. Mrs. (Lady) Camones (new president of Congress) comes from the quarries of Fujimori and has been a candidate for the regional government of Ancash in 2018. On the other hand, there is Mrs. Martha Moyano, she continues in a logic of the coup. The right has never agreed since the night the election results were released and the whole boycott started. This will continue and with more force. They want to pass themselves off as Democrats, but that is the screen.
It is true that they seek the exit of the Castle but there is an ungovernability in the management. Only the change of many ministers generates stability.
They are sensations, they are perceptions. What I consider is that there are obviously some problems in the Executive. It is a government that entered with a distinct and different position. I am aware that the ungovernability that Congress is proposing is very serious. Remember that in previous governments the first year was one of tolerance, a truce. In this government it has been completely the opposite.
Castillo helped a lot to put it in check, placing Minister Silva, meeting with Karelim López, handing over the position to his former presidential secretary, Bruno Pacheco.
Could be. Obviously, the right was never going to let this government work. Before he could swear, all this load came (…) Personally, I say that, certainly, (Castillo) has not surrounded himself with those who should have. Unfortunately, the party was not taken into account and those are the consequences, as the general secretary of the party (Vladimir Cerrón) would say. They have wanted to demonize Free Peru so much with the purpose of moving away from the Government. Everything has been a preparation of wanting to leave the government isolated, unprotected.
With the delivery of Pacheco, many maintain that Castillo could not reach the end of the year in power. What do you expect in the following months?
What the right wants is to remove him from any side, by vacancy, by resignation, by suspension, by the Judiciary. I see that the country’s problems that would come later will continue to be the same and worse. It is not trying to solve any at all. They want to see in a person (Castle) the problem.
