AMLO asks the Peruvian Congress to authorize Pedro Castillo’s trip to Mexico

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, urged the Peruvian Congress this Friday to authorize the departure of his counterpart from the country. peter castle to attend the summit of the Pacific Alliance next November.

“I take this opportunity to make this respectful request that the president of Peru be with us,” he said. Lopez Obradorwho is popularly known as AMLO, who must hand Castillo the temporary presidency of the bloc on November 25 in the Mexican state of oaxaca (on).

“It would be, with all due respect to his policies, a mistake not to allow him to leave because it is a matter of complete interest to the entire Peruvian people. It is not a partisan matter,” the leftist president added at his daily press conference.

Castillo, in power since 2021 for a five-year term, faces the possibility of being suspended from office, after the prosecution denounced him before Parliament for allegedly directing a network of money laundering and illegal awarding of public works contracts.

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Last October, the Congress ─dominated by the right─ denied him permission to visit the Vatican and Belgium.

In August it also prevented him from attending the inauguration of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroadducing the six investigations that the Prosecutor’s Office has opened.

Under Peruvian law, the president needs authorization from Congress every time he travels abroad.

López Obrador came out again in defense of Castillo, who on Thursday managed to get the Organization of American States (OAS) accept his request to send a mission to the country to “promote dialogue” in the face of the political crisis, behind which, according to the president, there is a coup plan.

“President Castillo won democratic elections, but they won’t let him. He has only been here for a short time and they have been harassing him,” said the Mexican president.

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