Peru’s Constitutional Court has clarified on Wednesday that the curfew decreed before President Pedro Castillo was removed from office by the Peruvian Congress is «unconstitutional» and therefore has no legal effect.
«The curfew that has been decreed is unconstitutional and illegal. No one owes obedience to a usurper government», explained the president of the Constitutional Court, Francisco Morales, in a press conference, as reported by the Peruvian RPP.
In this sense, he explained that «the political situation» has been resolved after «the presidential succession», taking into account that Castillo’s presidential decree has not been published in the official newspaper El Peruano.
«The citizenry must remain calm and we call on the institutions of the state to continue functioning normally and respecting public freedoms,» Morales has indicated in a statement published in the official account of the Constitutional.
