The President Pedro Castillo continues in a convulsive context. On May 29, the National Prosecutor Paul Sanchez decided to expand the investigation against the head of state for the alleged commission of the crimes of criminal organization, aggravated influence peddling and aggravated collusion. The former rural school teacher becomes the first president investigated without being suspended. In your consideration, is persecuting politically.
His defense, represented by Eduardo Pachas and Benji Espinoza, announced that today, May 31, he will request the “absolute annulment” of the tax investigation. According to the jurists, Pablo Sánchez would be violating the 1993 Constitution. Alternate voices such as the former Minister of Justice of the brief Paniagua government, Diego García-Sayan, argue that, although it is true that article 117 of the Magna Carta specifies that one cannot “accuse”, it does not prohibit “investigation”.
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Latest news from Pedro Castillo today, Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Aníbal Torres on request for annulment of Pedro Castillo to the Prosecutor’s Office: The president has the right to make use of resources empowered by the State
During his participation in the 2022 National Multihazard Simulation, the President of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, spoke about Pedro Castillo’s recent request to completely annul his preliminary investigation initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
In this line, the leader of the PCM expressed the following: “the president has the right to make use of resources that the State empowers him.”
Torres stressed the importance of the population being prepared for any telluric movement. Photo: Capture
Avisur asks to exonerate VAT on products such as corn, soybeans and wheat
The representative of the Association of Poultry Farmers of the South (Avisur) asked the Government to temporarily eliminate the VAT on the main supplies for feeding chickens. Proposal will serve to prevent the price of eggs from increasing in the coming weeks.
Dina Boluarte on investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office to the president: That it be objective
The Vice President of the Republic referred to the decision by the Prosecutor’s Office to expand the preliminary investigation against Pedro Castillo. Along these lines, she pointed out the following: “That it be objective and respecting the investiture of the president.”
Maricarmen Alva to Pedro Castillo: The only idle person is the Executive
The president of Congress, Maricarmen Alva, spoke about Pedro Castillo’s controversial statements about famine in the country. In this sense, the Popular Action parliamentarian replied: “The Peruvian people are not idle, the only idle is the Executive.”
The president of the Congress was in the morning in a human settlement of Villa María del Triunfo. Photo: Gianella Aguirre / URPI-LR
President Pedro Castillo participated in the National Multihazard Drill 2022
From the Government Palace, President Pedro Castillo together with members of the Executive participated in the 2022 Multihazard National Simulation.
President participated in the 2022 National Multihazard Simulation. Photo: Presidency.
President’s lawyer requests absolute annulment of the investigation initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office
Benji Espinoza, Pedro Castillo’s lawyer, presented to the Prosecutor’s Office a request for absolute annulment regarding the investigation initiated against the president. In statements to the press, the lawyer indicated the following: “When a prosecutor does not respect the Constitution, the message he gives is that those who are defenders of legality end up becoming executioners of legality.”
Latest news from the government of President Pedro Castillo today, Tuesday, May 31. Photo: Presidency.
Dina Boluarte acknowledged that she signed as president of the departmental club, but that it was for bureaucratic issues
Due to the accusations in a report by the Comptroller, Dina Boluarte referred to it. Along these lines, the official expressed the following: “Yes (I signed in 2022), because the vice president, now president of the Apurímac Club, has not yet registered her legal representation due to the bureaucratic issue and surely the Apurímac Club itself is solving it,” she told the press
Boluarte on the Comptroller: I found out that they sent a 60-page report with recommendations to Congress
The head of the Development and Social Inclusion sector (Midis), Dina Boluarte, commented on the actions of the Comptroller. Along these lines, the also vice president of Peru specified that when she was in Davos, she found out that the body sent a 60-page report with recommendations to the Congress of the Republic.
Dina Boluarte spoke with the press. Photo: The Republic
Dina Boluarte: “For me, the Comptroller’s attitude was surprising and ungrateful”
The Vice President of Peru and Minister of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis) Dina Boluarte, referred to the Comptroller’s report where the body indicates that the official would have committed a constitutional infraction by omitting in her affidavit of interests that she was president of the Council Director of the Apurimac Departmental Club.
Along these lines, Boluarte pointed out the following: “For me, the Comptroller’s attitude was surprising and ungrateful”
Congressman Paredes to Pedro Castillo: “He himself has generated his own persecution”
Karol Paredes, president of the Ethics Commission and alternate spokesperson for the Popular Action bench, referred to the recent statements by Pedro Castillo, who denounced that there is political persecution against him after the Prosecutor’s Office will expand a preliminary investigation into his against.
“I don’t know what persecution the president is referring to when he himself has generated his own persecution. Me I think he’s seeing ghosts where there aren’t any. Everything that is sown, is harvested. So, what he has sown, he has reaped, ”he declared for Successful.
Karol Paredes criticized Pedro Castillo. Photo: Congress
Flor Pablo on vacancy to Pedro Castillo: You have to be very careful when talking about it
The congresswoman of the Morado party, Flor Pablo Medina, referred to the initiatives of certain political parties when proposing a presidential vacancy against Pedro Castillo. In that sense, the parliamentarian expressed the following: “You have to be very careful when talking about vacancy. Only with the conclusions of the fiscal investigation against him can the political trial be given against him, ”she specified during an interview for Canal N.
Flor Pablo Medina was Minister of Education during the 2019-2020 period. Photo: Andean.
Who currently make up Pedro Castillo’s cabinet?
- Presidency of the Council of Ministers: Aníbal Torres Vásquez
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs: César Rodrigo Landa Arroyo
- Ministry of Defense: José Luis Gavidia Arrascue
- Ministry of Economy and Finance: Óscar Miguel Graham Yamahuchi
- Ministry of the Interior: Dimitri Senmache Artola
- Ministry of Justice and Human Rights: Félix Chero Medina
- Ministry of Education: Rosendo Leoncio Serna Román
- Ministry of Health: Jorge Antonio López Peña
- Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation: Javier Arce
- Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion: Juan Lira Loayza
- Ministry of Production: Jorge Luis Prado Palomino
- Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism: Roberto Helbert Sánchez Palomino
- Ministry of Energy and Mines: Alessandra Herrera
- Ministry of Transport and Communications: Juan Mauro Barranzuela
- Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation: Geiner Alvarado López
- Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations: Diana Mirian Miloslavich Túpac
- Ministry of the Environment: Modesto Edilberto Montoya Zavaleta
- Ministry of Culture: Alejandro Antonio Salas Zegarra
- Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru: Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra
