The ex-president Francisco Sagasti met with the current president peter castle on November 2, 2021. However, said appointment is not recorded in the official record of visits published on the Presidential Office transparency page.
As reported by the program “Punto Final” last Sunday night, although Sagasti’s entry does not appear in the transparency register, it was recorded by hand in a notebook of events at gate 6 or ‘gate Garita’.
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There it is detailed that the former president and member of the Purple Party entered at 8:40 pm in a platinum gray plate vehicle, which according to Sunarp belongs to the Ministry of the Interior – National Police of Peru. The departure occurred almost three hours later, at 11:46 p.m.
consulted by Trade Regarding his entry through gate 6, former president Francisco Sagasti responded in writing: “The meeting lasted approximately one hour and ten minutes. I asked where to enter and they told me through the residence door. I understand that it was recorded, as reported by a television program.
He also indicated that the contact for that meeting began with an official and then he spoke by phone with Castillo, “who invited me to the Palace.”
“The contact began with an official and then I spoke by phone with President Castillo, who invited me to the Palace,” he said.
He also revealed what he talked about with the president: “As there was only a week between the proclamation of who won the elections and the transmission of the presidential command, as in other meetings, I talked about my government experience. In this case, it was about two foreign policy issues and my point of view on the relationship between the President of the Republic and the President of the Council of Ministers.”
At that time, Mirtha Vásquez was serving as president of the Council of Ministers and was seeking the vote of confidence from Congress, which she obtained on November 4; the government party Peru Libre was already registering fugitive militants from justice for the Los Dinámicos del Centro case; and said group promoted a constituent assembly.
In addition, the now fugitive Bruno Pacheco served as secretary general of the Palace; and, among other facts, the comptroller had already warned of the appointment of people who did not meet the profile to be officials of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), a sector in which alleged acts of corruption have also been uncovered in the current government.
On October 30, three days before his visit to the Palace, Sagasti told the press that I preferred not to talk about political issues at that time waiting for the vote of confidence in favor of the former Vásquez Cabinet to be discussed.
But days after his meeting with Castillo, on November 20, changed his mind. Interviewed by RPP, he expressed himself against the vacancy motion that Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos had announced against the head of state at the time.
“I think that this vacancy request simply because the man is incapable seems to me an aberration that makes no sense,” he said.
Then, he referred: “Once again we are facing a situation in which, since I do not like the electoral results in which I have participated, we must invalidate it or remove the man who won. That is, disrespecting the popular will.” Later, on December 4, Sagasti met with Castillo at the Palace for two and a half hours.
Last May, the Investigation Unit of Trade revealed that, between August and November 2021, the nephews of President Pedro Castillo, Fray Vásquez and Gian Marco Castillo, entered 60 times through the Palace gate 6 with vehicles of businessmen linked to the president, but only 17 of those visits appear in the official report.
Both are being investigated by the prosecution for alleged acts of corruption related to the Puente Tarata III Case, and the first of them remains a fugitive from justice and has an international arrest warrant.
Door 6, located towards the side of the Alameda Chabuca Granda, is an exclusive entrance for relatives of the President of the Republic and leads to the presidential residence. Meanwhile, the formal entrance for guests to the government house is that of the Desamparados gate.
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