The former Prime Minister of Peru, Guido Bellido, has assured this Friday that former President Pedro Castillo «does not remember» having made the speech in which he dissolved the Parliament and decreed an emergency government, which led to his arrest on Wednesday.
The former head of Castillo’s first government has given rise to a sort of conspiracy theory, since he considers that it would be necessary to study the security cameras of the Government Palace to see what happened to the president in his last hours in office.
«The president does not remember. He has told me in his own words. The president says: ‘I don’t remember that I have read (the message to the Nation where the closing of the Congress was arranged)'», Bellido told the media, according to RPP radio station.
For the former Prime Minister, the motion of censure that Castillo was going to face was not going to get the necessary support. However, Castillo «ended up giving the arguments» by dissolving the Parliament in what he has defined as an «unexpected turn». «It’s weird,» he has said.
Bellido, therefore, has stressed that the reading of this decree by Castillo is justified in that the president «was not well», thus implicitly sowing doubt about a possible boycott of the former president.
«We need the freedom of Professor Pedro Castillo. We are going to demand that the president, in freedom, tell the country the truth,» said former Prime Minister Bellido.
On Wednesday, former President Castillo announced the dissolution of Parliament and installed a government of exception. However, this decision was not supported and the president ended up being dismissed by the Congress of the Republic and arrested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
