Peru, Congress gathers signatures to impeach Justice Minister and Prime Minister

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In Peru, an audio recording involving the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister has created tension within the executive branch. Congress is already gathering signatures to remove them from office. Our colleague Ramiro Angulo provides the details. teleSUR

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00:00And in Peru, an audio recording involving the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister has created tension within the executive branch,

00:06and Congress is already gathering signatures to remove them from office.

00:10Our colleague Ramiro Angulo with the details.

00:15The appearance of a new audio recording in which Justice Minister Juan José Santibánez requests the transfer to another prison of a dangerous criminal,

00:24whom he was legally advising, has once again called into question his suitability for the position.

00:30It is incredible, but the country's illegal economy is based on extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking, illegal mining logging,

00:40and human trafficking has legal arms through a group of lawyers who are now co-governing with the president.

00:45In other words, they have penetrated the institutions, not only the bad police, the bad officers, the bad soldiers,

00:51and the high command of the armed forces, but they are also penetrating the executive branch.

00:56As the audio says, the families are now going and knocking on the door of the ministry to claim what they have paid for.

01:03In the audio recording, he asks the then Minister of Justice and now Prime Minister Eduardo Arena

01:16to favour the convicted former police officer Marcelo Solu Roses, accused of being the armed wing of the Los Polpos gang,

01:23a fact that has lead to a motion of censure to remove both from office.

01:27If it is indeed his voice, and if he has made those announcements, if those conversations are real,

01:37he could have committed the crime of influence peddling,

01:39for which it is not required that the influence invoked be real,

01:45it is sufficient that the invocation of influence be made for the crime to have been committed.

01:49Therefore, all that remains to be done here is to conduct an expert analysis of the audio recordings

01:54and confirm that it is the voice of Senevanes, in which case he will have committed the crime without a dote.

01:59Senevanes was criticized as Minister of the Interior for not combating insecurity,

02:11but he also attacks the press, and is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office

02:16for blocking investigations against Dana Baluartek and her brother Nicanor.

02:24They are also negotiating the possibility of an amnesty I believe,

02:27and this is a hypothesis for the President of the Republic,

02:30with regard to the events of the 2020 and 2023-er,

02:36it seems to me that they are running out of time.

02:38They have eight months to achieve this amnesty in this Congress,

02:41before the new Congress is installed.

02:44And thus the President will be able to go home peacefully

02:46knowing that she will not be prosecuted for the deaths that occurred during the protests.

02:50For former Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez,

02:59Prime Minister Arana's attitude in saying that he does not recognize himself in the audio recording

03:04demonstrates his political audacity.

03:06The reaction of the person involved, Mr. Arana, President of the Council of Ministers,

03:15seems to me to be extremely cynical and somewhat expressive of political audacity,

03:19because he does not deny that it is his voice.

03:26He does not deny the content of the conversations,

03:30he simply says that it is up to the judiciary to determine that a Prime Minister is the highest authority.

03:37This is really scandalous and serious,

03:38but I believe he has this reaction because he feels impunity and protection.

03:42For those interviewed, the more than 30 signatures on the censorship against Santivanez

03:57demonstrate the delicacy of the case, and although they feel protected,

04:01it is difficult to predict whether any of them will be removed next week after the debate.

04:05From Lima, to Telesur, Ramiro Angulo Maquiavelo.

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