The OAS (Organization of American States) mission in charge of evaluating the political crisis in Peru arrives today when the confrontation between the Government and the Congress revived by the request for confidence raised by the prime minister, Anibal Torres, this week.
Critics of the Government aim to reverse the advantage that the Executive scored by getting the OAS to activate the Inter-American Democratic Chartera mechanism to defend democracy against threats, and decide to send the mission to Peru.
Opponents of the Executive refine their arguments to hold the OAS that only use prerogatives of the Constitution to face a complicated regime in cases of corruption.
There is expectation for the meeting with the prosecutor of the Nation, Patricia Benavides, who investigates the president Pedro Castillo for alleged corruption.
Fiscal. Benavides will inform Castillo of the investigation. Photo: diffusion
The trust
The trust request will be a special chapter to allege that there is an undemocratic intention to dissolve Congress.
Just three days after the arrival of the mission, tempers heated up again between the Government and Congress with the approach of confidence. As is known, this legal figure, when it adds two rejections of the Legislative, authorizes the president to dissolve the Parliament.
Torres presented it for Congress to approve a project that repeals the so-called “anti-referendum law” and warned that, as the Constitution it expressly says that the negative response is given when it is “refused”, if Congress uses terms such as declaring inadmissible or inadmissible, it will be taken as a denial of confidence.
“He will understand that. Executive What a refusal of the question of trust”, alerted.
This reminded opponents of the “factual question of trust”, alleged three years ago by then President Martín Vizcarra to dissolve Parliament in September 2019.
“This morning Parliament has received (…) our premier with the ministers and I hope that in the afternoon the Congress of the Republic will side with the people,” Castillo said shortly after to reiterate the injunction to the Legislature.
In the afternoon, Parliament did not debate the government’s request.
“The Board of Directors is evaluating the decision on the processing of the matter of trust. We are in the corresponding deadlines,” said the president of Congress, Joseph Williams, before the demand of the legislator Flavio Cruz, of Peru Libre, to schedule that matter.
Vacancy. Congressman Malaga will support the opposition side. Photo: diffusion
The rejection of the government was expressed that same afternoon with a denial of permission to Castillo to travel to Mexico.
“This justifies the Executive requesting a second confidence. This is the clear way of wanting to hinder. We demand that the Executive come to the plenary session of Congress to ask for the second confidence because the dictatorship of a Congress cannot continue to be allowed”, exclaimed the parliamentarian Jaime Quito, of Peru Libre, on a scenario of dissolution of the Legislative.
impartial
The spokesman for the OAS mission, Eladio Loizaga, assured that he will do an impartial job considering that they are going to take a position on one side of the conflict or on the other, far from reality.
“We know that our visit has raised great expectations in Peru, which any gesture that we make or any word that we say will be interpreted by someone as a position taken by the group in one sense or another. Nothing is further from reality,” he said in a video message.
“We are going to listen to the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers in various of their representations. We are going to listen to the government and the opposition. We are going to listen to religious, union, business, professional and civil society representatives,” he said.
Spokesman. Loizaga announced impartial work in Peru. Photo: AFP
Loizaga, Former Foreign Minister of Paraguay, stressed that his international mission was created “unanimously at the OAS Permanent Council in Washington” and that “it is protected by the Inter-American Democratic Charter that all the Member States approved precisely in Lima in September 2001″.
In addition, he reiterated the willingness of the members of his high-level group to carry out “managements that promote dialogue and strengthen the democratic system of government.”
“Very intense days await us in Lime”, express.
reactions
Alejandro Aguinaga, congressman of Fuerza Popular
“The international community must be alert. Anibal Torres, subjected to great stress that aggravates his mental health and as a neighborhood thug, he pretends to ignore the constitutional powers of Congress.”
Miguel Cabrejos, CEP President
“Before the arrival of the OAS Commission we want to recommend as Episcopal Conference form two working groups: one political-legal and another economic-cultural, in order to overcome the serious crisis in the country”.
Pedro Grandez, constitutionalist
“The best way to receive the OAS from the narrative of the Executive is with the accusation of Congress for ‘treason’ from a statement on CNN: It shows that Congress wants to remove him without argument.”
