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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo celebrates his first year in office this July 28, surrounded by accusations of corruption. Political analysts point out that his biggest mistake was forcing the resignation of his Interior Minister, Mariano González, upon learning that an intelligence team had been formed to persecute those involved in acts of corruption that affected Castillo himself.
Pedro Castillo celebrates his first year in power under five investigations by the Peruvian prosecutor’s office. Most of them concern alleged influence peddling and one in particular focuses on an alleged obstruction of justice for the dismissal of Interior Minister Mariano González.
He claims to have learned of his removal from a tweet on July 19, shortly after a special team was announced within the police with the aim of capturing three fugitive members of the presidential entourage investigated by the prosecution for corruption. He had been on the job for 15 days.
The next day, González asked Congress to “take action now” to remove Castillo from office.
For RFI, the former minister explains what led him to speed up the capture of the fugitives. “I changed above all the director of intelligence, who reports to the Ministry of the Interior, and this caused a first annoyance. Then I brought people for a special team,” explains González by phone. “That was what ended up getting the president to remove me from office.”
“Misrule”
The three fugitives are a former minister of Pedro Castillo, a nephew who claimed to be an adviser to the president, and the former secretary of the presidency. They were part of Castillo’s environment from the beginning of his government.
Since his arrival as head of state, the opposition and the right that controls Parliament have questioned Castillo and called for his removal on two occasions. González’s dismissal unleashed a new scandal in Peru’s endless political crisis.
“The serious thing is that in this mismanagement there is no pilot or co-pilot. Both the president and the president of the Council of Ministers do not lead the country”, denounces the former minister.
►See and listen: “Peru, ‘a government weakened by the attacks it has received, and by its own merits'”
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