The President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, the Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, as well as the members of the Council of Ministers of the Executive, will face a constitutional complaint for allegedly violating several articles of the Constitution by proposing a reform that would allow submitting more important issues to referendum.
Specifically, the civil association Movimiento Integridad has filed the complaint before the Subcommission of Constitutional Accusations (SAC) of the Congress assuring that the Government would have breached articles 90, 106, 108 and 133 of the Peruvian Magna Carta, as reported by ‘La República’.
According to this organization, the Prime Minister acted «unconstitutionally» when he appeared in the Parliament’s hemicycle proposing a motion of confidence to the Congress to approve a bill to replace the current law limiting the referendum.
Likewise, Movimiento Integridad has argued that the approval and repeal of said law «is the exclusive and excluding competence» of the Congress, and not of the Government.
Therefore, they have assured that Castillo and his ministers would have «the sole purpose of forcing a denial of confidence and propitiate the dissolution of the Congress, using, illegitimately, article 134 of the Constitution», according to the above mentioned newspaper.
Meanwhile, this will be the second constitutional complaint that the Peruvian president will face, after the Attorney General’s Office filed before Congress an accusation against Castillo for allegedly being the head of a criminal organization active in the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, favoring private companies in public bidding processes.
However, the Peruvian Constitutional Court on Tuesday ordered the Peruvian Congress to annul the accusation for alleged treason filed against the Peruvian president and approved by the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Congress.
Following this complaint, which requested the disqualification of the president for five years, the highest interpreter of the Peruvian Magna Carta agreed with Castillo’s defense after it argued that the accusation presented by the subcommittee was arbitrary, according to RPP radio station.
