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Alejandro Salaswho chaired the Labor and Culture portfolios under the government of Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), declared this Tuesday that he could interrupt the message of the self-coup, in December 2022, if they had allowed him to enter the presidential office.

“If I had been allowed to enter (…) -I say this because I know what I am as a human being-, I would have interrupted him when I heard what he was starting to say. say when he talks about an exceptional event in government and the taking over of institutions. I would have interrupted him and you would have heard my voice say: what are you doing? “said the former minister in a interview for The Republic.

“Surely some of what I would have said to him would be like what I said to him at the end, ‘What you read is a crime,’ I said in front of everyone who was there. (. ..) I was going to warn him of the same thing, that he was going to end up in prison,” he added.

Salas, for whom Castillo asked before going on the air on December 7, confirmed seeing the message on television in the Quiñones room, “sitting at a table”. He also assessed that they didn’t give him access because he would ask for the message before it was read.

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“I was going to do it with authority, because I was one of those who was going to exercise political defense in Congress. So what I was going to read was going to spoil what we were going to do in the afternoon. Surely there would be a problem in the presidential office and surely it would end up in another story, but surely I would end up resigning and denouncing what I had read,” he told the newspaper.

Elsewhere in the interview, Salas said the former president offered him the job of prime minister in June and November, months in which he distanced himself from Betsy Chávez, the last former leader. cabinet minister and now accused of covering up the self-coup. .

A video broadcast by Panamericana Televisión reveals that the former head of state coordinated with his work team the transmission of his speech. The image of Betssy Chávez also appears in the previous shot. At one point, Castillo gestures with his hands to finalize the details.

Because of this broadcast, the Congressional Constitutional Accusations Subcommittee (SAC) approved the final report which recommends accusing Chávez and former ministers Willy Huerta and Roberto Sánchez of co-authoring the failure of the self-coup. From now on, the report must be ratified by the Standing Committee before reaching the plenary session for debate and vote.

Pedro Castillo made a coup on December 7, 2022.
Pedro Castillo made a coup on December 7, 2022.

If the Chamber’s support is obtained, the document will be forwarded to the national prosecutor, Patricia Benavides. “I think we have to vote one by one, for each minister, because we have to separate the actors, the factors, the scenarios. Not all were the same. With the images, (for example) it was absolutely clear that former minister Roberto Sánchez was not present when the message was read,” Salas said.

Since then, the ex-president has remained in preventive detention in a prison in Lima, while he is under investigation for crimes of rebellion and conspiracy.

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Meanwhile, on February 17, the plenary session approved the final report of a constitutional complaint which recommends accusing him of allegedly leading a criminal network in his government which, according to the prosecution, awarded fraudulent tenders for public works.

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