“Pedro Castillo strikes a desperate blow because he knew that he had a few hours left in power. Congress must go ahead with the vacancy and the Armed Forces have to support the constitutional order. #NoAlGolpe #VacanciaYA”Fujimori tweeted.
Hours after Castillo’s announcement, Congress, dominated by the right, approved his removal as president with 101 votes.
Immediately, the president of the body, José Williams, called an emergency session in which the vice president was sworn in, Dina Boluarte.
Castillo’s decision to dissolve Congress and decree a state of emergency It was considered a “coup” by congressmen from various benches, who immediately drew a parallel with the self-coup led by former Alberto Fujimori in 1992.
Keiko Fujimori, Alberto’s daughter and leader of the Fuerza Popular party, lost the presidential elections in the second round against Castillo, from Peru Libre, on June 6, 2021, amid the indifference of a population hard hit by the serious socio-political crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.
staff of the national police arrested Castillowho had come to the Prefecture to ask for guarantees.
Castillo, a left-wing rural professor without a political party, had to appear before Congress this Wednesday to defend himself in a process that seeks to remove him, appealing to the constitutional grounds of “permanent moral incapacity” to exercise the presidency, for alleged acts of corruption . This would be the third vacancy motion to which the president would submit since he took office in July 2021.
Source: Ambito
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