Peruvian media reported on social networks that the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, left the Government Palace with his children and relatives, shortly after announcing the dissolution of Congress
The Peruvian Congress dismissed President Pedro Castillo for moral incapacity, a few hours after the president ordered his temporary dissolution. With 101 votes in favor, six against and ten abstentions, the entity summoned the current vice president Dina Boluarte at 3:00 pm for her appointment as provisional president.
In accordance with peruvian media Castle He was detained in the police region of Lima, after leaving the Government Palace after announcing the dissolution of Congress. The head of the presidential escort prevented Castillo’s transfer and ordered his displacement to the seventh region, for violating the constitution.
In addition to ordering the dissolution of Congress, Castillo called, in a message to the nation prior to the vote on the vacancy motion against him, new parliamentary elections and decreed a curfew for this Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. local) until 4:00 am.
“To convene in the shortest term elections for a new Congress with constituent powers to prepare a new Constitution within a period not exceeding nine months. As of that date and until the new Congress is established, it will be governed by decree law”, said the President.
It also declared the “reorganization of the Justice system, the Judiciary, the Public Ministry, the National Board of Justice and the Constitutional Court.”
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Vice President Dina Boluarte described as a “coup” the decision of President Pedro Castillo to dissolve Congress announced this Wednesday, December 7.
“I reject the decision of Pedro Castillo to perpetrate the breakdown of the constitutional order with the closure of Congress. It is a coup d’etat that aggravates the political and institutional crisis that Peruvian society will have to overcome with strict adherence to the law,” the vice president wrote.
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Through social networks, Peruvian media reported that Castillo left the Government Palace with his children and family. It is unknown where he was headed.
For her part, the Attorney General of Peru, Patricia Benavides, “emphatically rejected any breach of the constitutional order” that may occur in her country, after Castillo announced the dissolution of Parliament and the formation of an “emergency government ” in the country.
“I want to start by emphatically rejecting any breach of the constitutional order,” Benavides emphasized during a ceremony that had been previously scheduled by the Public Ministry.
Benavides emphasized that “the Public Ministry is reaffirmed” in its defense of democracy and said that, as prosecutor of the Nation (general), it urges “to respect the Political Constitution, the rule of law and the democracy that has cost us so much to achieve ».
Almost immediately, the National Justice Board (JNJ) also spoke out, whose members fully rejected Castillo’s “coup d’état” and emphasized that “no one owes obedience to a usurping government.” This position was also raised by the Constitutional Court (TC), whose members asked the Armed Forces to restore “constitutional order” in the country and called the Castillo government “usurper.”
The position of the representatives of the Judiciary coincided with the majority of the congressmen of all the benches, who denounced that President Castillo carried out a coup d’état.
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