Congress President, Lady Camones, criticized the position of the head of state, who chose to remain silent in the face of the protocol of the interrogation of the Prosecutor General, Patricia Benavidezin the zeal carried away this Thursday.
— It’s a pity. What the whole country expects, especially from him, is that cases are cleared up. This is the sixth case in which he is being investigated. This attitude is sad. he had,” Camones said.
In this sense, he characterized the conduct of President Castillo as “obstruction of justice” because by his silence he “would have hindered the clarification of matters.”
“It is his right (to remain silent), but he has double standards. At first he says that he is going to cooperate with justice, but silence does not cooperate with justice”, he remarked.
New Cabinet
On the other hand, with regard to the President’s announcement that tomorrow he will be swearing in a new cabinet of ministers, and his call for political parties to work with him in said conformation, the President of Parliament said that “barely“I would cooperate with the executive branch in this task.
“That’s what he always says, but unfortunately all the cabinets that have been formed did not meet the requirements and, above all, to meet the needs of the country,” he said.
These statements were made following a ceremony marking the “Day of the Peruvian Judge” that took place today at the headquarters of the judiciary.
Pedro Castillo did not answer questions
Benji Espinoza, Lawyer Pedro Castillo, It emerged that the president was appealing to his constitutional right to refrain from answering prosecutors’ questions at an appointment this Thursday at Defense Ministry headquarters. He pointed out that the President only replied “common law” and in a voluntary statement denied the charges against him and maintained his innocence.
“Then he indicated that later, when he was called, he would testify, but for now he would use his constitutional, legal and conventional right to remain silent,” he said.
Espinoza confirmed that “within the dynamics of the investigation” fiscal investigations are carried out every day in the five cases brought against Castillo, and that for this reason “it is better that the President respond to all (and not only) part of it; so it will be later, when all the information is collected, the president will give all the relevant explanations.”
Source: RPP
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