“What this complaint seeks is to destabilize the country, it is contrary to the Constitution,” Torres told the press after a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The former president of the Constitutional Court, Óscar Urviola, told the newspaper La República that the complaint “has elements for Congress to qualify the president’s conduct as permanent moral incapacity, which disqualifies him from continuing in office.”
Castillo accuses a “coup d’état”
Since coming to power, Castillo has lived under the siege of the prosecution and the siege of a Congress, dominated by the right, which demands his resignation and tried twice to remove him.
In a press conference with foreign journalists, the president described the constitutional complaint —as well as the raids and arrests— as a “coup d’état” orchestrated by the Attorney General’s Office.
“Today, in the morning hours, the execution of a new form of coup d’état has begun in Peru, a coup d’état with scripts created using the Public Ministry politically and (to) make the country believe that my person leads a criminal network,” denounced the president.
In what was his first press conference since he took office, Castillo maintained that when he travels around the interior of the country, the people tell him to close Congress, but that he is “a democrat.” In addition, he stated that “We are going to guarantee economic stability and give full confidence to investors.”
But “we are going to stand firm despite this political persecution,” he added at the press conference. “They are substantiating an accusation that we have never committed,” he said.
With information from AFP and Reuters