Silvia Montesa says she was “totally unaware” of the 68 overseas airfare purchase made by Congress.

Sylvia Monteza, The second vice-president of the Congress ruled on the complaint of journalists about the purchase by Parliament of 68 air tickets abroad in the amount of more than 312,000 soles.

ABOUT, Montesa Facho He said that this purchase is not “engaged” by parliamentarians, but by the administrative part of the Legislative Assembly, so he is “completely unaware” of what is connected with the aforementioned air tickets.

“I didn’t know at all. I belong to the second vice president (…) As part of the delivery of the position, I was not given this delivery. We do not have no requirements that they made this purchase of tickets. This means that the administrative part of the Congress deals with this issue. I am completely unaware of this,” he said.

In addition, he said that the national office is monitoring, but they do not know anything about the purchase of these tickets.

“(Tickets) are not handled by congressmen. This is the administrative part. Congress. We don’t know what the administrative part does. We have a control part. We dedicated ourselves especially to our regions to control, but it was not known what they were doing,” he said.

In this sense, she said that she was surprised by this information and that today, Thursday, she would demand a meeting with the speaker of parliament. Joseph Williams, ask for clarification on the matter.

“Of course, what is happening is getting my attention. I just got back from dealership week yesterday. So, today I’m going to request a meeting with the President of Congress to ask for an explanation, and I’m going to request information from the (General Administration) to tell me what happened and why they made these purchases,” he said.

Buying tickets abroad

Congress of the Republic bought 68 airfare abroad the country in mid-December last year to a travel agency for sum S / 312 819.41, as the newspaper reported this Thursday Trade.

The contract was signed with Cuarzo Travel SRLtda on December 16, at the height of the political and social crisis following the failed coup d’état of the former president. Pedro Castillo.

According to the aforementioned media, the contract document does not specify the routes and names of the congressmen who will use the tickets abroad.

Among the directions airfare acquired Congress of the Republic For example, there are 10 round-trip tickets to France for S/56,723 or six tickets to Russia for S/39,823.68.

In addition, there are destinations in Belgium, Mexico, Iceland, Indonesia, El Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, USA, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.

A total of four travel agencies were involved in the service contracting process to obtain airfare. It started in October 2022 and the award was given on December 23rd, culminating in a contract signing on the 16th of the same month.

Newspaper Trade He clarified that he was trying to get a response to the purchase airfare abroad with a senior congressional official, José Chevasco, but he referred the matter to the director of parliamentary administration, Pablo Noriega, who promised to provide an explanation, but never did.

While Cuarzo Travel SRLtda confirmed that destinations airfare They were already set when the competition for a good pro began, which was received in November, but no further details were provided, citing a confidentiality clause in the contract.