If the Prime Minister has made one thing clear, Gustavo Adrianzenin his statements over the last two days, is that he is not losing sleep over the requests and proposals of the Attorney General, Juan Carlos VillenaOn Wednesday, he questioned the approach of the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to fight crime. Yesterday, he not only relegated his request to convene the National Council of Citizen Security (Conasec) “on an extremely urgent basis”; he also criticized the timing of his request to be granted a larger budget for the 2025 period.
On the first point, the head of the cabinet said that the agenda proposed by Villena to combat citizen insecurity, and other points proposed by the heads of the other institutions represented in the council, will be discussed at the “next ordinary meeting.” What he did not say is when and where this will take place. Apparently, for Adrianzén, citizen insecurity is not a priority.
On the subject, the president of the Judiciary (PJ), Javier Arévalo, said that it is necessary for concrete measures to be put forward in this forum for a solution. “If the Council of State is convened to make decisions regarding criminality, I agree, but they should be concrete and firm decisions, not rhetorical declarations. If criminality is to be fought as it should be, concrete things; but rhetorical or generic, lyrical declarations would not be worth it and would not make sense,” he pointed out.
More budget?
On the other hand, Adrianzén spoke about the demand of the Attorney General for additional resources to be given to the Public Ministry in the 2025 budget and, in that line, considered the claim untimely. “I cannot say whether there will be (more resources) or not, we are going to study their demands. The budget was presented on August 29, that was the moment when the Attorney General himself and his team should have worked on these issues in the Ministry of Economy, (…) before August 30,” he insisted.
He also took the opportunity to compare the budget project of the Attorney General’s Office with that formulated by the Judiciary, where they present “specific allocations” for, for example, the flagrancy units “where the Public Prosecutor’s Office is conspicuous by its absence,” he added.
PLEASE NOTE
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has stated that the additional resources that it intends to allocate for next year would not be sufficient and that they only amount to 33,974,000 soles.
The amount originally requested by the institution was just over 2,183 million additional soles.
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