Minister for Women’s Affairs, Claudia Davila, noted this Wednesday that the Congress of the Republic “takes a firm stand” in approving almost unanimously the suspension of parliamentarian Freddy Diaz for 120 days. The legislator is under investigation in the case of the rape of his employee, which occurred in July last year.
“It is very important that Congress took a strong stand against violence against women. I applaud the removal of Congressman Freddie Diaz Monago for allegedly sexually harassing one of his employees. Let’s continue to join forces in defense of women,” the head of MIMP wrote on her official Twitter account.
Claudia Davila offered an interview in TV Peru where, despite the approval of the decision parliamentpointed out his questions before Congress to send the case about Freddie Diaz. In this sense, he noted that this aroused suspicion.
“It is very unfortunate that today Congress is sending this case to a reserved vote, it makes us suspicious and anxious as women. We should all be outraged. One of the objectives of this department, which I personally proposed, is to reduce the painful level of rape that we have, the number of femicides is outrageous, ”he said.
The plenary session of the Congress approved this afternoon with 99 votes in favour, 0 against and 4 abstentions the report of the Ethics Commission, which announces a complaint against MP Freddy Díaz Monago, based and directing him to be suspended from office for 120 days in the legislature with a corresponding discount of their assets .
The mentioned deputy is accused of violating article 1 and paragraph a) of article 4 of the Code of Deputy Ethics; as well as letters e), g), j) and m) of Article 3; Figures 4.1 and 4.4 of Article 4; letters a) and b) of Article 5 and numerals 8.1 and 8.5 of Article 8 of the Regulations of the Code of Deputy Ethics.
Last week, ethics commission unanimously approved final report recommending plenary session of Congress to suspend lawmaker for 120 days Freddy Diaz Monago.
Congressman defends himself
Suspended congressman Freddy Diaz told RPP Noticias that he only accepted parliamentary sanction for drinking in the legislature, not for indicting his former staff member.
“I also voted for the suspension, because I think this is an unfortunate fact. I know and have recognized this in the Ethics Commission as a violation of good practice, good behavior, the Parliamentary Code of Ethics, which I attacked. “, the suspended congressman said.
Diaz clarified that in his case, there is a parliamentary trial on charges of drinking, which ended in his suspension, and another trial in court over a complaint about the alleged rape of a former employee. Regarding the latter, the legislator said that justice would have to establish after an investigation whether he was guilty or not.
Source: RPP
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