With information from Mary Luz Aranda/URPI-GLR
Order. Kelly Portalatino, head of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), considered that the president peter castle I should go to the Permanent Commission next Wednesday, November 16, as stated by José Palominolawyer of the head of state.
In statements to the press, Portalatino supported Castle Lumpswho must defend himself before the national parliament and answer about the constitutional accusation against him for alleged treason and that seeks to disqualify him from office for five years.
“If they talk to me like Kelly Portalatino, I would tell the president (Pedro Castillo) to go, go to the Permanent Commission because he who shouldn’t, fears nothing. It is the people who are going to support him for having a democratic mandate”, he stated.
In addition, he criticized the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC) has approved the final report against Pedro Castillo with 11 votes in favor and 10 against. “It is unfortunate the formalization of that report of a treasonAlready that we are all aware that there is no treason against the country. There is no specific act that has generated such a fact”, he narrowed down.
In this sense, he called on lawmakers to reconsider report for treason with the aim of “no longer generating greater ungovernability, but quite the opposite, closing social gaps, bringing a new social pact.”
“I invite and exhort all parliamentary brothers to reflect because all the Peruvian people see us millimeter by millimeter the actions we do and today, in this political chaos, the conflict between the Executive and Legislative is evident”, he added.
Pedro Castillo’s lawyer: “We request that it be returned to the Subcommission”
Earlier, José Palomino Manchego, lawyer for Pedro Castillosaid that he sent a request to the Standing Commission to return what was approved in the Subcommittee.
During an interview on TV Peru, the lawyer argued that said complaint for treason should not continuesince the term of the ordinary legislature has expired and because Lady Camoneshead of the working group, advanced opinion with his vote in favor.
“We are requesting that everything be returned to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations because if we do not answer for the use of the word, they will think that we do not want to go, that is why we have answered democratically”, he declared.
