Former President Francisco Sagasti called “absurd and stupid” suggestions of an alleged secret meeting between him and the president. Peter’s castleafter it was revealed that on the night of November 2, 2021, the president visited the Government Palace, in a meeting not registered on the transparency portal.
“This is one of the most absurd and stupid things, there are never any secret or clandestine meetings,” he told reporter Rosa Maria Palacios on Radio Santa Rosa.
The former president explained that he had five meetings with presidential castletwo while he was still president, and three more during the new government.
He pointed out that the first was formal, in the Government Palace; the second at his home, where he invited the president-elect to explain the process of acquiring COVID-19 vaccines, and the third, in which he asked to speak to Lock express concern about the new government’s plans to create a Ministry of Science and Technology.
Unregistered meeting
The fourth meeting, dedicated to the controversy, was to address the reserved subject of international negotiations initiated in the transitional government he presided over and whose “final outcome was to be at the end of November.” sagasti He indicated that for this he had requested a meeting in advance and that it was not scheduled until the night of November 2, when he was summoned immediately to the Government Palace.
The former president said that he arrived at the government house after nine in the evening, asked where he could enter at that time, and was told to enter “through the residence.”
“So you can see it’s not a secret, when someone goes to the residence across Loreto street where the police station is, there is a control that records who enters and then another […] I arrive, I enter, they let me in, I talk to the president and explain all these issues to him,” he said.
sagasti pointed out that presidential castle He also asked him what the relationship should be between the head of state and the presidency of the Council of Ministers, in connection with the request for a vote of confidence in the Cabinet of Mirta Vazquez in Congress held on November 4, 2021.
“(I told him) that a harmonious relationship is better, continuous […] (c) someone you trust [..] who knows the entire state apparatus well,” he said.
Regarding suspicions that the gathering was not officially registered, Sagasti said that “the secretariat of the palace is responsible for this.
Source: RPP
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