Diego Bazan: “There are supranational interests behind the release of Pedro Castillo”

Diego Bazan, congressman for Avanza País, acknowledged on Tuesday that there is a possibility that Pedro Castillo could go free. The reason for this event is that the constitutional complaint against the former president in Congress has not been moving forward for a month and a half.

“Today again, in yet another attempt to delay the process, lawyer Eduardo Pachas indicated that the applications and files would not have been delivered to them, but these documents were already delivered to them in the subcommittee process (Constitutional Charges), the only thing that has changed is the final report, which has been improved,” he said on the air of the program Everything is known from RPP news.

Diego Bazan argued that there were clear elements of conviction regarding responsibility Pedro Castillo for the crimes for which he is under investigation. However, he stressed that the protection he still retains for being president must be removed.

“Mr. Pedro Castillo is on remand in a sedition case and can be released at any time if we do not move forward with this process because we are in a political impeachment case. We are going to withdraw the protection that all high-ranking officials after taking advantage of their position,” he said.

On the other hand, the congressman indicated that if the complaint is approved in the Standing Committee, it will be referred to the plenary session of Parliament and that 51 votes are needed to remove the defense of Castillo Terrones. However, he was surprised by the constant support that the former president receives from the leaders of the region.

“The Latin American region, it is protected by almost the entire bloc, they even gave him an excellent lawyer, one of the best criminal lawyers who defended Cristina Fernandez. There are supranational interests behind the release of Pedro Castillo,” he said.

Interviews with foreign media will be investigated

Congressional Control Commission President Hector Ventura announced on his social media that he would call the heads of INPE and Dinoes after an interview given by Pedro Castillo to the Spanish newspaper elsaltodiario.com.

This is too much! Pedro Castillo not only launches hate messages from prison on his networks, but is now giving interviews to international media. For this reason, the head of INPE and the director of DINOES will be called to clarify this issue,” Ventura wrote on his official Twitter account.

The former president has been in Barbadillo prison since 17 December, after the judiciary ordered his preventive detention for 18 months following the announcement on 7 December of the dissolution of Congress and the establishment of an emergency government. be considered a “self-coup” or a violation of democracy.