Pedro Castillo: TC declares the report of the Subcommittee for treason null and void

The Constitutional Court (TC) declared null and void the process initiated by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress against the president Pedro Castillo for the alleged crime of treason.

In the sentence issued today, to which Peru21it is indicated that the Subcommittee has not duly motivated the final report, approved on November 11with which the complaint against the president is approved.

“No precision is made about to what extent the statements of the President of the Republic can be subsumed in the crime of treason (…) it is not specified to what extent the development of an interview can constitute” an act directed to submit the Republic to foreign domination”, reads the ruling.

The aforementioned interview is the one that Castillo gave to journalist Fernando del Rincón, from the international network CNN, on January 24 of this year. In it, the head of state was in favor of ceding the sea to Bolivia.

“It is an idea (cede sea). Now we will get and consult the (Peruvian) people. What would happen if the Peruvians agree? I owe myself to the people and I would never do things that the people do not want,” the president declared that time.

In this line, the TC indicated that in the report of the congressmen “it is not fulfilled to justify to what extent an eventual purpose or personal thought, if that is the case, can suppose the beginning of the execution of the crime of treason against the fatherland ”.

The constitutional body, in this way, accepted the writ of habeas corpus filed by the defense of the head of state.