The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, gave up on Friday to leave the country to a meeting of the Asia-Pacific enclave that will take place in Thailand, which adds to two other previous refusals that Congress had imposed on him.
“I regret that it was not prioritized in the last plenary session of the Congress of the Republic, which harms the organization of the presidential agenda,” lamented the president in a letter sent to the legislative house and published through a tweet.
Congress had rejected each of Castillo’s requests in August and October, respectively, in an attempt to remove him.
On both occasions, Congress has voted against Castillo going abroad for work trips, urging him to deal with the political situation in the Andean nation and, on the other hand, putting before him the accusations grouped into six investigations prosecutors for alleged acts of corruption committed and those that the president flatly denies.
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