MADRID 9 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Honor and Democracy bench has presented this Thursday a motion of censure against the president of the Congress of Peru, Eduardo Salhuana, for being absent from office in the midst of a scandal over the alleged prostitution network within Parliament, in which members of his party would be involved. party, Alliance for Progress (APP).
The letter alleges that Salhuana “has committed a serious breach of duty by not adopting timely measures to confront the moral crisis” caused by this “scandal” linked to pimping.
Thus, it emphasizes that “this unfortunate situation” affects “the dignity of Peruvian women”, as well as the “honorability and respectability” of the chamber, recalling that the case has supposedly led to the murder of Andrea Vidal, a congressional worker. and alleged partner of the ringleader of the plot, Jorge Torres Saravia.
The document presented by Honor and Democracy already has the signature of 21 deputies, including the five from the party. You need a total of 66 so that the process can continue until its vote in Congress.
The murder of lawyer Andrea Vidal, supposedly in charge of hiring prostitutes posing as secretaries and administrative staff to offer them to deputies in exchange for votes, uncovered the scandal.
Saravia and Vidal’s collaboration would have broken down more than a month ago when they both had a fight. On December 9, the car in which she was traveling was shot at by a group of hitmen in the La Victoria district, in Lima. The driver died instantly, while she died this Tuesday after seven days of agony.
Saravia, a lawyer by profession, came to Congress in 2020 at the hands of Luis Valdez, secretary general of Alliance for Progress, one of the parties that supports the highly questioned president Dina Boluarte. In his past there is a crime of sexual violence, which he himself admitted, but for which he was not tried.