The Constitutional Court of Peru annuls the complaint for treason filed against Castillo

MADRID, 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Constitutional Court of Peru has ordered this Tuesday the Congress of the country to annul the complaint for alleged treason against the Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, and in which his disqualification for five years was requested.

The highest interpreter of the Peruvian Magna Carta has agreed with the president's defense after it argued that the accusation presented by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress against Castillo was arbitrary, the RPP radio station reported.

Specifically, the Constitutional Court has declared an appeal by the president's legal team in which it requests a 'habeas corpus' to be justified, ensuring that the complaint from the parliamentary subcommittee does not meet the "reasonableness parameters" and violates "the principle of interdiction of the arbitrariness".

In this sense, the Peruvian Constitutional Court has annulled the agreement promoted last week by the subcommittee in which Parliament was urged to accuse Castillo of alleged treason.

"The Constitutional Court, with the authority conferred on it by the Political Constitution of Peru, has resolved to declare the habeas corpus claim founded and to declare the nullity of the agreement of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress (...) for violating the right to due motivation in parliamentary headquarters", wields the resolution issued by the Constitutional Court of Peru.

The report approved against the head of the State of Peru proposed accusing him for alleged infringement of the Constitution, for which reason it was recommended that he be disqualified from holding public office for five years, all this after having shown himself in favor of granting "sea for Bolivia", according to 'Diario Correo'.

"In the development of the foundations, no precision is made about to what extent the statements of the President of the Republic can be subsumed in the crime of treason against the homeland (...) it is not specified to what extent it can constitute 'an act aimed at subjecting the Republic to foreign domination or making a part of it independent'", alleges the Constitutional Court on said report.

With 11 votes in favor and 10 against, the parliamentary subcommittee approved a report sustaining that Castillo had betrayed the State, leaving the process in the hands of the Permanent Commission so that, later, it could be debated and voted on in plenary session of Congress.

After the Constitutional decision, President Castillo has avoided facing a possible accusation for treason, which would be the culmination of an innumerable list of complaints and incriminations against the president in the little more than 16 months that he has led the Peru.

During this time, the head of state has not only seen how he has been accused of different crimes, most of them for alleged corruption, but he has also dedicated a large part of his time to appointing new ministers and up to four prime ministers in a remarkably tense political context.

The disqualification requires 66 votes, subtracting the members of the aforementioned Permanent Commission. The Peruvian press has warned that, based on the parliamentary arithmetic already shown on previous occasions, it is possible that the opposition has the numbers in its favor.