He gives you his support. After Pedro Castillo carry out its failed closure of the Congress and that the parliament managed to remove him with 101 votes in favor for moral incapacityone of his sisters ruled in his favor.
Gloria Castillo Terrones spoke with RPP about the presidential vacancy and all the events that marked the day of December 7. In addition, he referred to the accusations against him made by Salatiel Marrufo.
What did Pedro Castillo’s sister say?
The teacher’s relative explained that they will be by Castillo’s side “as a family.” “We are going to give our support and our solidarity to our brother because we are all there as brothers. The political case will see him. (…) The nine brothers are with him”, admitted Gloria Castillo Terrones.
Pedro Castillo’s sister says she does not know Salatiel Marrufo
On the other hand, Gloria Castilo made a public complaint due to the statements of Salatiel Marrufo, former head of advisors to the Ministry of Housing. He is accused of receiving 4 million soles from Pedro Castillo and in his statement he agreed to have given 60,000 soles a month to six brothers of the former president.
“I am going out to publicly denounce this Mr. Marrufo that I do not know him, I have not met with him. He will have to prove his slander with facts, he is slandering my honor, my daughter and my family. I inform this man that if something happens to my family, to my daughter, to myself, he will be the only one responsible,” said Pedro Castillo’s sister.
Finally, he revealed that, regardless of the political landscape, the family will continue to support the former president. “We remain strong, and surely the people will be with the former president,” said Gloria Castillo.
Pyrrhic victory. Congressmen who promoted the vacancy of Pedro Castillo celebrate the assumption of Dina Boluarte. Photo: Antonio Melgarejo/The Republic
Judiciary orders preliminary detention for 7 days against Pedro Castillo
The Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation issued a preliminary detention for 7 days against the holiday former president Pedro Castillofor the alleged crime of rebellion and conspiracy after giving a coup d’état by announcing the dissolution of the Congress of the Republic.
During the hearing on Thursday the 8th, prosecutor Marco Huamán argued before Judge Juan Carlos Checkley that there is a risk of flight by the ex-president, for which he recommended that preliminary arrest be ordered.
The representative of the Public Ministry recalled that, after announcing the coup d’état through a message to the nationthe former head of state tried to take refuge in the Mexican embassy and request political asylum.
What did the president of Mexico say about Pedro Castillo?
During his public statements, the head of the Mexican Executive confirmed that Pedro Castillo applied for political asylum in the Mexico’s embassy in Peru after announcing the closure of Congress. Along the same lines, López Obrador maintained that he was fully willing to agree and even confessed that he gave indications that the doors be opened for the entry of Castillo Terrones, but this fact could not be specified.
“He spoke here to the office so that they would notify me that he was going to the embassy, but surely they had already tapped his phone and he was going to request asylum, and if they would open the embassy door for him. I looked for Marcelo Ebrard and told him to talk to the ambassador and open the door for him, but after a short time they took over the embassy,” the head of state confessed.
Pedro Castillo left the Prefecture where he was detained after carrying out a coup
Former President Pedro Castillo left the prefecture located on Avenida España, in Cercado de Lima, inside a black van heading to a new facility where he will remain detained after the Prosecutor’s Office launched a preliminary investigation against him for the alleged crimes of rebellion and conspiracy. Sources from this newspaper learned that the former president was being taken to the Los Cibeles police complex in Rímac.
Earlier, Pedro Castillo was arrested along with Aníbal Torres, former head of the Council of Ministers, after both left the Government Palace after the announcement of a failed coup. Finally, Castillo was vacated by Congress and succeeded by the vice president, Dina Boluarte.
Dina Boluarte is sworn in as the first president of Peru
Finally, Dina Boluarte is sworn in as the first president of Constitutional Peru until 2026.
What did Pedro Castillo say in his last message to the nation after announcing the closure of Congress?
Pedro Castillo announced that he will temporarily dissolve Congress and presented a series of measures that will be carried out immediately, such as: elections for a new Parliament and a curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.
“In attention to the citizen claim in the height and breadth of the country, we made the decision to establish an emergency government, to restore the rule of law and democracy, for which purpose the following measures are issued: temporarily dissolve the Congress of the Republic and establish an exceptional emergency government; to convene, in the shortest possible time, elections for a new Congress with constituent powers to elaborate a new constitution in a period not exceeding nine months”, Castillo began by manifesting.
Luis Almagro: “It was Pedro Castillo who violated the truce and did not open space for political dialogue”
Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), spoke again about the coup d’état carried out by the former president Pedro Castillothe last December 7.
On the subject, he maintained that the vacated former president did not comply with the truce and political dialogue recommended by the preliminary report of the mission of the OAS who was in Peru to analyze the political crisis.
“It was very clear that political dialogue was necessary, it was very clear that a political truce was necessary. Unfortunately this political truce was not fulfilled and neither was the political dialogue. Unfortunately, it was former president Pedro Castillo who violated that truce and who did not open that space for political dialogue that would have been so important, ”he said in an exclusive interview for Epicentro.
Castillo had argued before the UN Assembly that coups d’état “are illegitimate”
On Tuesday, September 20, President Pedro Castillo had argued in the middle of a session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that “coups d’état are illegitimate regardless of their modality or the power that promotes them” and even He assured that any confrontation between the powers of State should “be resolved through dialogue and respecting the electoral results.”
“Democracy supposes the existence of political positions, of those opposite political positions, that is what freedom consists of. But in democratic governance there is respect for freedom and, above all, for the popular will”.
This was the departure of Pedro Castillo from the Palace with Lilia Paredes
The empty president Pedro Castillo was seen leaving the Government Palace with his family. They carried things in travel bags. Minutes later, the former president was vacated by Congress, which he dissolved.
Patricia Benavides: “I reject any violation of the constitutional order”
The head of the Public Ministry, Patricia Benavides, spoke about the measure taken by the now vacated Pedro Castillowho announced the closure of Congress.
“I emphatically reject any violation of the constitutional order. The Public Ministry reaffirms itself and, as the Nation’s prosecutor, I support and urge respect for the Political Constitution, the rule of law and democracy,” said Benavides. Video: Channel N
Pedro Castillo is detained in the prefecture after leaving the Government Palace
The Holiday President Pedro Castillo is detained in the prefecture after leaving the Government Palace after announcing the dissolution of the Congress of the republic. Sources close to La República reported that the head of the presidential escort was the one who prevented Castillo’s transfer and ordered his displacement to the seventh region, for violating the constitution.
Until now, former President Pedro Castillo remains in the prefecture, a place where the Nation’s prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, is also located, who is investigating him together with the Special Team against Power Corruption led by Marita Barreto, within the framework of the alleged corruption offences.
How was the arrival of former president Pedro Castillo framed in the Diroes?
After 9:00 p.m. on November 7, former president Pedro Castillo He was transferred by helicopter to the Diroes police headquarters, in Ate, as part of the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office against him after his failed coup. On the way, the Peruvian ex-president he was framed and was accompanied by police forces so that he could spend the first night detained by the alleged crime of rebellion in an environment specially set up for him.
Previously, Pedro Castillo spent more than eight hours in the Prefecture of Lima, together with Hannibal Torres, after his vacancy was approved with 101 votes in favor. Immediately, Dina Boluarte she assumed command and was proclaimed the first female president of Peru. VIDEO: courtesy
Carlos Anderson affirms that “the chances of Dina Boluarte completing her term are very few”
The non-grouped congressman Carlos Anderson assured that the probabilities that the new president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, meets the constitutional mandate until 2026 “There are very few” due to the eventual advancement of general elections.
“We have to be realists. The possibilities that Mrs. Dina Boluarte has of getting ahead and finishing her term until 2026 are very few. You have to be very clear on that. In the Constitution Commission, the early elections have been approved, I think it is something that should be put to the vote,” Anderson told Exitosa.
However, the former member of the Podemos caucus indicated that he “very much doubts” that his colleagues “are willing to self-inflict the exit”: “The interest of the country is not necessarily what is put forward. I am going to vote in favor because I do believe that Peru needs to take a step back to take five steps forward.
