The Attorney General of Peru, Patricia Benavides, on Wednesday “emphatically rejected any violation of the constitutional order” that may occur in her country, after President Pedro Castillo announced the dissolution of Parliament and the formation of a “Government of emergency” in the country.
The National Prosecutor in Peru, Patricia Benavides Vargas, He emphatically expressed his rejection of the breach of the constitutional order, after the announcements made by Pedro Castillo.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I emphatically reject any violation of the constitutional order,” said the National Prosecutor in Peru firmly.
The Public Ministry reaffirms itself and as the nation’s prosecutor I support and urge respect for the Political Constitution, the rule of law and the democracy that has cost us so much to achieve.
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During your participation At the Conference for the International Anti-Corruption Day, which is commemorated this Friday, he considered it necessary to reflect on “how disastrous it is for a people to live submerged in corruption.”
“It is undoubtedly an evil that transcends the cultural, to establish itself at an anthropological level. Corruption means putting a price on our honor and selling the most precious thing we have,” he said.
Words of the National Prosecutor in Peru
Despite the existence of the national policy, “its eradication has not been achieved and even worse, we have a high rate of perception,” he added.
“This obliges us to reiterate our exhortation so that corruption in Peru is not normalized,” said the National Prosecutor in Peru.
“The worst danger that we face today as a society is the” normalization of corruption “(…) it is a danger because it undermines the very foundations of social coexistence and constitutes a crime that affects human rights,” he asserted.
Benavides Vagas called on all Peruvians to “fight together, every day, to build a Peru without corruption.”
“This commitment concerns all of us, every Peruvian, who aspires to a country in which its institutions function without conditions, without its rulers appropriating public money and in which representative democracy is not betrayed,” he pointed out.