The Peruvian Constitutional Court voted in favor of the challenges raised by the legal defense of President Castillo against the accusation of treason. | Photo: @TC_Peru

Lima, November 23 (RHC)-- The Constitutional Court (TC) of Peru has annulled the accusation of treason against President Pedro Castillo processed by the Congress controlled by right-wing sectors.

Through a resolution, the TC declared founded the "habeas corpus" lawsuit presented by the defense of the president against the Subcommittee of Constitutional Accusations of the Parliament, which approved the accusation of treason against Castillo.  The complaint sought the disqualification of Pedro Castillo for five years for "treason" for having declared that his country could facilitate an exit to the sea for Bolivia.

The Peruvian TC voted in favor of the questions raised by the legal defense of President Castillo, considering, among other reasons, that the report proposing the disqualification of Castillo "violates the right to due motivation in parliamentary proceedings", and therefore ordered its annulment.

The complaint against Pedro Castillo was filed by conservative politicians and lawyers, as a way to depose Castillo, after the failure of two attempts to declare the vacancy of the presidency for alleged moral incapacity.

President Castillo's lawyer, Benji Espinoza, commented that the TC ruling is historic and correct, since "the constitutional complaint for treason was a legal nonsense."