"Why do I have to close the Congress? What I am going to close are the poverty gaps," said the head of state. | Photo: Twitter @presidenciaperu

Lima, December 5 (RHC)-- The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, denounced being the target of a media campaign aimed at linking him to acts of corruption and to remove him from power.

"I am sure they are plotting many things.  Audios, videos and many edited ones will come out, but what they cannot do is to silence us and bend the efforts" of the government, said the Peruvian president on Saturday during a visit to the southern Andean region of Cusco.

After the public event he gave statements on the current political situation of the country and was consulted about a possible closure of the Parliament.  "Why do I have to close the Congress?  What I am going to close are the poverty gaps," said the head of State.

In Cusco, where he inaugurated the "Virgen de Vidawasi" pediatric health and children's cancer center, the Peruvian president made reference, without mentioning it directly, to the allegations of a television program that said that he held meetings with businessmen in his private home, something that is forbidden by local laws.

Castillo commented: "I am not going to take a step back, because I have come for you to dignify the country, to command this homeland", said the president, who has denounced time and again the attempts of the right wing to destabilize the country and launch a coup d'état against him.

For her part, the Vice-President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, declared that "we should not feed this coup d'état that comes not from all the congressmen, but from some congressmen," she said regarding the motion of vacancy, which will be preliminarily debated next Tuesday.