President Peter Castillo was arrested by the authoritiesMercopress reported.
The Attorney General Daniel Soria has already filed a criminal complaint against Castillo over his previously announced dissolution of parliament.
While this is happening, Congress has voted in an extraordinary session to free the current president of the republic. It passed with 101 votes in favor. There were abstentions and votes against.
Recall that this is happening after today Castillo dissolved Congress and declared a state of emergency.
Castillo, who was facing impeachment in Congress, created an “emergency government,” announced the reorganization of the State Department, the National Council of Justice, the judiciary and the Constitutional Tribunal, and imposed a curfew.
After the announcement, protests erupted in the country’s capital, Lima.
The Congress of Peru was to discuss Castillo’s impeachment today and the president had to go to lawmakers and respond to allegations of corruption and “moral incompetence.”
Reflecting on the allegations against him, Castillo accused his opponents of trying to “blow up democracy and ignore our people’s right to choose“.
