“The plenary session of Congress approved censoring the Minister of the Interior, Dimitri Senmachewith 78 votes in favor, 29 against and eight abstentions,” the legislature reported last night through its Twitter account. According to the law, you have a period of 72 hours to present your letter of irrevocable resignation.
The dismissed Minister of the Interior was involved in a corruption case that points directly against Pedro Castillo. Opposition congressmen accused him of allowing the escape of former Minister of Transportation and Communications Juan Silva, as well as former presidential secretary Bruno Pacheco.
Both former officials, whose whereabouts are unknown, are being investigated by the prosecution in the framework of a case involving alleged bribes in the Ministry of Transport and Communications to grant public works concessions to private companies.
President Pedro Castillo is suspected of leading this alleged criminal network.
Pedro Castillo, more alone
Peru Libre will act as a “proposal opposition”, unlike the “obstructionist opposition” of the right-wing parties that dominate Congress, the AFP news agency reported.
Peru Libre complains that Castillo set aside the party’s program and his electoral promises and is instead “implementing the losing neoliberal program“.
The break comes just as a congressional commission is investigating the president for alleged corruption and plans to recommend a impeachment against him, which may lead to another request for dismissal from the position he reached 11 months ago.
Peru Libre accuses Castillo of undermining party “unity and discipline” after the division of the ruling party.
Doubts now focus on whether the 16 congressmen who remain in PL (from the original 37) will join the vacancy shares (impeachment), a decision that would leave the president absolutely helpless.
For the impeachment, the votes of 87 of the 130 congressmen are needed. Until now, with an official bloc of 37 members -regardless of the divisions- and five allies, the opposition, led by “hard” right-wing parties, had found it impossible to reach that figure.
Source: Ambito
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