Pedro Castillo was to meet with 5 congressmen of the People’s Action in Sarratea before taking over the government.

A few days after taking office as President of the Republic Pedro Castillo would appreciate how to gain control of parliament through the 2021-2022 Board of Directors, given that Peru Libre had 37 elected congressmen with whom a parliamentary majority was not guaranteed.

According to a report from TradeTo this end, the then-elected president appointed Oner Vasquez, one of his trusted employees, to “recruit” members of the bench. People’s Action (AP) with which to provide the Board of Directors in accordance with their interests.

Meeting at the Sarratea House

According to a report prepared by a special group of police supporting the Special Group of Prosecutors to Combat Corruption in Government (Eficcop), which includes, among other things, the testimony of effective officers, between July 23 and 24, 2021 vasquez called an elected congressman Carlos Ceballos announce that Pedro Castillo he wanted to meet with elected congressmen from his party. Considering this, zeballos I would give him my phone number Darwin Espinoza.

After the corresponding message, Onener Vasquez And Darwin Espinoza They would arrange to meet at the Meliá Hotel located in San Isidro. Trade was able to verify that spinoza He stayed at the said hotel from 21 to 28 July of the same year.

In this quote vasquez informed the elected congressman of his intention Pedro Castillo meet with other members of his faction to talk about the Board of Directors and “be able to govern parliament”. Answer spinoza before this sentence it would be: “power divided”. After that, they would agree that the next meeting with the other elected parliamentarians would take place at the Sarratea house, which at the time served as the office of Castillo Terrones.

According to the police report, the said meeting took place on July 24, 2021 around 23:00. spinoza Accompanied Elvis Vergara, Ilyich Lopez, Wilson Soto And Edwin Martinez, who met with Pedro Castillo and Auner Vasquez for about 45 minutes.

Although this meeting did not reach an agreement on Board of Directorsyes “this would serve to fulfill the first agreements” so that the indicated members of the Presidential Administration “support the management Lockwho will act as a coalition until any proposal for the release of the president or the possible conviction of ministers of state.” In exchange, the aforementioned congressmen “requested positions in directions and ministries that depended on the executive branch.”

Encounters during Castillo’s reign

The appointment of July 24, 2021 would be just the beginning of other meetings that took place in the first months of the Government Terrones Castle. According to a police report, at least 14 AP congressmen met with the head of state or Onener Vasquez – Appointed head of the Technical Bureau of Advisors to the Presidential Administration – in the Government Palace. Some of these appointments took place on 25 August, 7 and 14 September 2021.

The proposal of the executive branch to parliamentarians would also be implemented. In October of the same year, Darwin Espinoza he would go to Vazquez’s apartment in Jesus Maria, where his landlord handed him a proposal for his AP faction to settle “at his own discretion” Ministry of Production and even indicate its owner. This would be in response to Pedro Castillo’s interest in “not losing those 12 votes”, which meant the support of the members of this bench.

As a reminder, on December 7, 2021, members of the board popular action They voted against accepting the first presidential job offer.

Denial of responsibility

in dialogue with Tradecongressman Darwin Espinoza He admitted that he met Auner Vasquez and other members of the AP at the Meliá Hotel, as well as Pedro Castillo at the Sarratea Passenger House, although he indicated that he did not remember who accompanied him to this last meeting.

“Vasquez was trying to be an intermediary, something like that, the executive branch so that we could form a single (list of applicants for the board of directors), he said. However, he denied that an agreement had been reached with Lock and that he was the government’s go-between with his bank.

In turn, Congressman Wilson Soto He told the said newspaper that on July 24 he went to the Sarratea house, accompanied by Espinoza, Vergara, López and Jorge Flores. “It was a meeting with the board of directors,” he confirmed. He also said that parliamentarian Waldemar Serron was present at the meeting.

However, Congressman Elvis Vergara He denied attending the said meeting or going to Sarratea’s house. “I never went to Sarratea,” he said. Trade.