Peru’s former prime minister, Guido Bellido, assured this Friday that former president Pedro Castillo “does not remember” delivering the speech in which he dissolved Parliament and decreed a government of exception, which led to his arrest on Wednesday.
Castillo’s former first head of government has created a kind of conspiracy theory as he thinks it would be necessary to study the security cameras of the Government Palace to see what happened to the president in his last hours in office.
“The president does not remember. He told me in his own words.”
The president says: ‘I don’t remember having read (the message to the Nation where the closure of the Congress was organized)’, Bellido told the media, according to the RPP radio station.
Bellido, therefore, has insisted that the reading of this decree by Castillo is justified by the fact that the president “was not well”, implicitly sowing doubts about a possible boycott of the former president.
“We need the freedom of Professor Pedro Castillo. We will demand that the president in freedom tell the country the truth”, said former Prime Minister Bellido.
