The group arrived at the request of the Peruvian president, who is facing a constitutional challenge. The envoys will examine the situation, in meetings with all powers and sectors.
The High Level Group of the Organization of American States (OAS) traveled to Peru He started his schedule this Monday of meetings in Lima for assess the political crisis in the country with an audience at the Government Palace with the Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, and his ministers.
The mission, headed by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay Eladio Loizagaarrived at the headquarters of the Presidency to carry out the first meeting on his agenda, after which will visit Parliament to meet with its head José Williams and the representatives of the benches.
The high-level group is made up of Pablo Tettamanti, the vice chancellor of Argentina; from Belize, Eamon Courtenay; from Costa Rica, Arnoldo André; from Ecuador, Juan Carlos Holguin; from Guatemala, Mario Adolfo Búcaro, and from Paraguay, Julio César Arriola, as well as the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Laura Gil.
The president of the Judiciary, Elvia Barrios, reported that her meeting with the mission will be on Tuesday at noon and that they will explain the route they have followed to deliver justice, in the face of allegations of alleged corruption presented against Castillo and his closest entourage.
On October 20, the OAS plenary session agreed to send a mission to Peru to study the political crisis, after President Castillo asked the organization to activate the Inter-American Democratic Charter after considering that a “new form of coup d’état” against him.
The president made this statement after the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, filed a constitutional complaint against him in Congress as the alleged leader of a criminal organization in the Executive Branch, an accusation that the president rejects.
Loizaga told the press on Sunday that the mission he is going to meet “everyone” when asked if he can also meet with the attorney general.
Meetings “with everyone”
Likewise, the spokesman released a message on social networks in which he said he knew that the visit of the OAS mission “has raised great expectations in Peru” and that “any gesture that we make or word that we say will be interpreted as a position taken by the group in one sense or another, but Nothing is further from reality“.
He reiterated that they will dedicate themselves to listening “to the executive, legislative and judicial powers. To the government and the opposition. To religious, union, business, professional and civil society representatives.”
The only objective of the visit, he insisted, is to “listen to the Peruvian people”, always respecting the Constitution, sovereignty and the Rule of Law of the Latin American country.
Executive sources told El Comercio that President Castillo closed Sunday night, in coordination with the Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, and Foreign Minister César Landa, and other members of the Ministerial Cabinet, the presentation that he will give this Monday to the special group of the OAS.
They added that the presentation contemplates reporting fraud allegations from a sector of the opposition, which initially refused to acknowledge his victory. They indicated that the president will also state that Parliament tried to vacate him on two occasions before he completes his first year in office.
EFE