The former president Pedro Castillo It is being completed 54 months of preventive detention ordered by the Judiciary, after it was arrested after its failed attempt to close the Congress on December 7, 2022, an action that was qualified as a state self -golpe. Castillo must remain in the Barbadillo prison while investigations and judgments against him continue.
However, the preventive detention against him will not prevent him from applying for a public office in the next 2026 elections, since in accordance with the recent norms approved by the Constitution and Congress Regulation Commission, it is established that “they are prevented from applying for positions of popular election, the persons with conviction issued in the first instance, as authors or accomplices, by the Commission of Denive Crime.” Pedro Castillo does not comply with any of these characteristics, since no conviction has yet been issued against him.
Pedro Castillo to the Senate
The Republic communicated with the congressmen Guillermo BermejoPresident of the Voces del Pueblo Party, and Roberto Sánchez, president of the party together for Peru, to know if they have had conversations with “the teacher” or have thought about joining their ranks within their senate lists.
While Bermejo said he does not see Pedro Castillo Since the time he visited him in the Barbadillo prison, at the beginning of the Government of Dina Boluarte, he did say that he would have talked to the former president: “We have talked to the professor’s people, but first we have spoken with the registered parties to know that we can offer the non -registered ones. We are willing to share the list of deputies and senators, but with parties and people who are in the tune of our flags.”
At another time in the conversation, he stressed that his party has not talked directly with the people of the Castillo party, all with the people, but did not rule out that in the following weeks the dialogue was agreed. “This week we are going to close conversations with the matches together for Peru, Nuevo Peru, now a nation of workers and entrepreneurs, to see if they really have a willingness to initiate the process of electoral alliance.”
For his part, Roberto Sánchez, president of the match together for Peru, confirmed to have talked with people from the party of Pedro Castillo.
“Yes we have had political conversations and we believe in the unity of castillism, antaurism and popular movement of the regions, union fronts, ronderiles and the provincial left,” he said.
He also described his political group as a host space for sectors that, according to their vision – have been marginalized or criminalized by the current regime.
“It is its own space for ‘illegalized’ leaders such as the ethnonationalist ethnonationalists, the imprisoned abusively and without due process such as Pedro Castillo, the prosecuted and persecuted by the protests after December 7, the Quechuas, Aymara and Amazonian leaders and other popular sectors such as carriers, artisanal miners and all the regional masses excluded by this regime,” he concluded.
Pedro Castillo armored by Congress
Unlike former presidents Martín Vizcarra and Francisco Sagasti, who were already disabled by Congress to occupy public positions, the same does not happen with Pedro Castillo, who still maintains his intact political rights, despite the multiple accusations against him. This is because the disqualification process requires a constitutional complaint approved by Parliament, which has not yet occurred.
In March 2025, Congressman Alejandro Cavero filed a constitutional complaint against Castillo for alleged infractions to the Constitution and the commission of the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy, seeking to disable it for 10 years to exercise any public office. However, this process is still in process and disqualification has not been completed.
Meanwhile, Castillo remains in preventive detention since December 2022, fulfilling an initial measure of 18 months, which was extended for additional 36 months, adding a total of 54 months of preventive detention while the judicial processes against him develop.
