The Congress of the republic denied for the third timeduring the plenary session this Thursday 17— the authorization to the President of the Republic, Pedro Castilloso that you can leave the country and travel to Mexico after the visit to Peru of the mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) scheduled for November 20.
After the denial of permission —with 51 votes in favor, 58 against and 2 abstentions— to travel to Mexico, the parliamentarian Jaime Quito of Peru Libre called for the prime minister to raise a new question of trust before the Plenary against the decision of parliament to disallow the head of state from leaving the country for the third time. The same thing happened when Pedro Castillo I request permission to travel to Colombia to take command of Gustavo Petro and when he wanted to go to the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis.
The president planned as part of his international agenda to participate in Mexico in the Pacific Alliance Summit on November 24, 25 and 26.
After the questioning of the leftist benches, a sector of the Full changed his mind and authorized the president’s second request Pedro Castillo to travel to Chili —with 77 votes in favor, 35 against and 2 abstentions— to participate in the Binational Cabinet with Chili on the 28th and 29th of this month to be held in Santiago.
A common point among the arguments against put forward during the debate in plenary was that President Pedro Castillo should not be allowed to travel to Mexico Y Chili as a consequence of witnessing a question of confidence by the head of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres. During that same day it will be debated in the Hemicycle.
This is how the fujimorista made it known Hernando Guerra Garcia: “This morning the prime minister came to ask for a matter of confidence, which could end in him having to resign and a new cabinet having to be set up and the president wanting to go on a trip. Who do we believe, the prime minister or the president who wants to go on a trip?
The independent legislator spoke along the same lines Carlos Anderson, who accused the Executive of attempting against Congress the same day that the president requests authorization for a trip: “the same day that Aníbal Torres tries to subdue the Congress of the Republic with a request for a matter of confidence that is a legal impossibility, knowing perfectly well that he cannot invade these fueros, the president asks us to travel abroad. It would be a shame if we agreed to this request.”
Positions in favor of Pedro Castillo’s trip
In favor of allowing the trip, the bench of Free Peru, among its members, the presence of the Minister of Health, Kelly Portalatinowho, using her power to intervene in plenary as a legislator, defended the president’s right to leave the country to participate in high-level international events: “For a just homeland, we are going to approve the president’s trip.”
another member of the Torres Cabinet present in the Hemicycle during the debate was Roberto Sanchezhead of the Foreign Trade and Tourism portfolio, who urged the Plenary to do not ridicule the trips of the head of state abroad: “It is among the presidential faculties and you have to let it do its job. He has already been prohibited from traveling here several times and this event of the Pacific Alliance is very important, so I will vote in favor of his travel”.
