The concern transcended borders: “We highlight the enormous respect and friendship that unites us with the people of Peru, we reiterate our solidarity with the legitimately constituted authorities and we hope that Peruvians manage to find formulas that strengthen democratic coexistence,” they said in a statement. the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico.
Castillo experienced this week what no predecessor did: that the Prosecutor’s Office raided the Government Palace itself.
He went in search -unsuccessful- of his sister-in-law Yénifer Paredes, suspected of integrating a network to traffic in the award of works. Paredes, 26, lost her mother when she was very young and was left in the care of her older sister, now first lady Lilia Paredes, who is 23 years older than her and was already married to Castillo at the time. Hence the impact of handing her over to the authorities, which occurred hours after the raid.
The actions were accompanied by the opening of another fiscal investigation against the president, who was already facing another five. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the president, his sister-in-law, the minister (today of Transportation and then of Housing) Geiner Alvarado, a mayor and two businessmen set up a plot to keep contracts for public works.
Reaction
“There is a persecution and they put on a show so that my family can be framed (handcuffed) and say: is the corrupt president there? If they want to frame my family, why don’t they do it with those who abandoned the education of the people?” Castillo said on Friday in the jungle, in what seemed to be one more step in a strategy to involve the masses in the theme.
Several ministers, and with special vehemence the head of the cabinet, Aníbal Torres, defended Castillo, while the opposition from Congress maneuvers for solutions in its own way, in an escalation of positions from which it is difficult to see an end.
The president of the Judiciary, Elvia Barrios, denied that her institution participated in a persecution. The attorney general, Patricia Benavides, did the same thing in unusual messages to the Nation, at a time when she herself is being accused by the media of alleged dark dealings.
The president and his lawyer, Benji Espinoza, do not address the accusations in depth and rather insist that they wait until the end of the term (in 2026), as has happened with previous presidents, several with legal problems, but whom the judicial apparatus did not play while they were on duty.
For some analysts, the way in which Congress and the Prosecutor’s Office squeeze Castillo, with the support of the big media, could have the paradoxical effect of rekindling sympathy with the head of state, regardless of suspicions of corruption.
“I don’t know if Castillo’s request is fair, because I don’t trust him, but at the moment it seems to me that it generates identification in many Peruvians and a rebirth of the hardest core around not his project, but his figure. He also gives me back the desire to fight against the coup plotters, who continue to be the greatest evil, ”said the writer Juan Manuel Robles.
“This show is not orchestrated only by the Prosecutor’s Office and this is the most eloquent and alarming thing. The role of other powers, especially the media, endorsing and applauding the actions, allows the president to speak of collusion. You may not like Castillo, but you cannot deny that this collusion exists,” commented political communication expert Laura Arroyo.
In Congress, the right-wing opposition has three options to remove Castillo: the first is to remove him for “moral incapacity”; the second, to suspend him for “treason against the fatherland”, for a television interview in which he seemed to insinuate that he could give Bolivia territory. The third, which does not depend on the Legislative, support that a judge suspend him for hindering the investigations.
But it’s not so easy. In the first case, because they do not have the necessary 87 votes (out of 130) and they will not have them unless part of the left definitively breaks. For the second they do have the required 66 votes, but a large part of the legislators admit that the legal argument is weak.
As for the decision of a judge, it does not seem like a simple matter either, since it required solid legal support that, at least for now, does not exist.
In addition, according to the lawyer and journalist Rosa María Palacios, a harsh critic of the Government, “when one believed that Castillo was in the basement, Congress appears and beats him.” This week, when the spotlight was on the president, lawmakers partially overshadowed him with three cases.
One was the lack of action against congressmen Freddy Díaz and Wilmer Elera, who remain in office despite the fact that the former is accused of raping his assistant in Parliament itself and that the latter was sentenced to six years in prison for a case prior to its arrival in the legislature.
The other, with great media coverage, was the physical attack on a leftist parliamentarian, Isabel Cortez, by María del Carmen Alva, former president of Congress and virtual operator against Castillo, who was accused by colleagues in the Popular Action party of racism. and lack of control.
Surveys indicate that Castillo has only 24% popular approval. But with that he easily exceeds the 10% that he approves of Congress, which for experts may indicate that the streets are not taking any steps against the president because they feel that they could help the resisted Legislature in this way.
In this framework, the Executive and the Legislative have turned a deaf ear to initiatives that seek to channel the only way out that according to the polls has popular support: the anticipated consensus of general elections.
Telam Agency
Source: Ambito
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