Peruvian congresswoman of the Avanza País political party Patricia Chirinos has filed a constitutional complaint on Monday against the country’s president, Pedro Castillo, his former prime minister Aníbal Torres, as well as against the entire Council of Ministers that the latter led for allegedly violating the Constitution.
The complaint, brought before the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Parliament, requests dismissal and disqualification for 10 years for the accused, after they have been accused of infringing the Peruvian Magna Carta, as reported by the newspaper ‘Correo’.
«Today I am filing a constitutional complaint against Castillo, the ‘expremier’ Torres and all the ministers who signed the minutes of the Council, where the Government interprets at will the answer to the question of confidence. No one is above our Constitution and Peruvian laws!», the parliamentarian has written through her social networks.
These facts take place after the Council of Ministers pointed out in a minute that the Congress had rejected the cabinet’s proposal to reform the law that regulates referendum calls, when actually it had been the board to do so, without submitting the proposal to a vote.
According to Chirinos, only the Congress has the power to interpret the sense of its decision, and not the Executive.
Peru is in the midst of a political crisis following the disagreements between the Peruvian branches of government, which have been frequent in recent months since Pedro Castillo was sworn in as president in July last year after winning the elections.
In fact, tensions in the Peruvian Parliament have reached the point that last week the then prime minister, Anibal Torres, presented a question of confidence that was rejected by the chamber.
This result led to the resignation of Torres and the appointment of Betssy Chávez as the fifth Prime Minister of Peru in the barely 16 months that Castillo has been at the helm of the Presidency.
