“Timely we will submit a report to the OAS Permanent Council, and from there the conclusions will be known,” said the group’s spokesman, Paraguayan Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga. / Photo: AFP
The high-level mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) that is visiting Peru to assess the situation of democracy in the country described as “sincere and transparent” the meetings held with the different powers of the State at the beginning of your visit.
The group’s spokesman, Paraguayan Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga, spoke of a “very sincere, very open and transparent” dialogue with President Pedro Castillo and the other authorities with whom the mission has met after arriving in Lima yesterday.
“In due course, we will submit a report to the OAS Permanent Council, and from there the conclusions will be known.”said Loizaga, quoted by the Europa Press news agency.
The mission, made up of four foreign ministers, the representatives of three others and a commissioner from the OAS General Secretariat, met this Monday with Castillo, with the president of the Peruvian unicameral Congress, José Williams, representatives of the Justice, and several others. interlocutors.
The mission was approved by the OAS at the request of Castillo, who claims that a coup against him promoted by the right-wing opposition is underway.
The mission was approved by the OAS at the request of Castillo, who claims that a coup against him promoted by the right-wing opposition is underway.
According to the president, this attempt is part of the claim to suspend him through a constitutional complaint filed by the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged corruption or through a preliminary trial for alleged treason, or, otherwise, to dismiss him for “permanent moral incapacity.” .
In mid-October, the OAS Permanent Council decided to send a high-level delegation to Peru to carry out an analysis of the political situation in the Andean country at the request of President Castillo himself.
The Peruvian executive formally requested to the organism the activation of articles 17 and 18 of the Democratic Charter with which the entity can provide assistance when “the Government of a member state considers that its democratic institutional political process is at risk or their legitimate exercise of power”.
The group will write a report to bring it to the attention of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington.
The group will write a report to bring it to the attention of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington
The decisions of the continental forum are not binding, but for analysts they could mark some line to solve the problems.
Castillo, a 53-year-old rural teacher, has been in the crosshairs of the opposition since he took office in July last year.
The opposition has already tried twice to remove him without success and now it is based above all on the complaint of the Prosecutor’s Office and the figure of treason against the homeland.
