Presidential hopeful Roberto Sánchez has announced that his party Juntos por el Perú will file a complaint against the running mate of his opponent in the second round, Keiko Fujimori, after he acknowledged the existence of a "plot" between Congress and the Prosecutor's Office to remove former president Pedro Castillo from office.
"The fish dies by its mouth. They have confessed their crime," Sánchez stated at a rally held on Monday in San Juan de Lurigancho, one of the districts of the province of Lima, from where he announced that his political organization will file a complaint against Senator Miguel Torres, candidate for Vice President for Fuerza Popular.
The legal action is based on statements by Torres himself, in which he admitted that Fuerza Popular coordinated with Congress and the Public Ministry, as well as with other political actors, to remove Castillo from power, who ended up being arrested in December 2022 after his failed attempt to dissolve Parliament.
"Removing Mr. Castillo was not easy (...) Journalists did it, Congress also did it, the Public Ministry also did it. It was truly a sum of efforts for that gentleman to leave," he said last week in an interview on the Willax Televisión channel.
Given this "confession by the party," Juntos por el Perú is "in a position to file a complaint that involves all those who conspired against democracy, against the government of the people," the presidential candidate stated.
Former special prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, who was responsible for the corruption case against candidate Keiko Fujimori before being replaced due to irregularities in his performance and is currently the lawyer for former president Castillo, has announced that he will also promote a complaint for these events.
In addition to Torres, Pérez has detailed that the accusation will also extend to congressmen Martha Moyano --from Fuerza Popular-- and José Williams Zapata --from Avanza País--, former Attorney General Patricia Benavides, and former Police General Commander Raúl Alfaro, according to the Peruvian newspaper "La República".
Former president Pedro Castillo is currently serving a sentence of more than eleven years in prison for the crime of conspiracy committed in December 2022, after his failed attempt to dissolve Congress which, in just over a year in office, had rendered much of his electoral promises ineffective.
Alongside this sentence, Castillo also faces an open process for alleged corruption. Although there is a pardon request underway, Sánchez has already stated during the campaign that, if he wins the elections, he will grant him that measure of grace.
After a tight first round between Sánchez and the conservative Rafael López Aliaga for second place, it will finally be the candidate from Juntos por el Perú who will face Keiko Fujimori in the definitive election on June 7, who thus adds her fourth attempt to follow in the footsteps of her father, Alberto Fujimori.