Castillo sought to avoid a scheduled session of Congress in which a motion of vacancy against him was to be voted on.

Following Castillo’s announcement, Congress ended up declaring the president vacantthat is to say his dismissal, for “moral incapacity” with 101 votes forand decreed that the vice-president, Dina Boluarte.

The PNP confirmed on its Twitter account that Castillo is in one of its offices in Lima with the prosecutor. Patricia Benavides and other officials.

“In accordance with our powers and powers described in Article 5 of DL No. 1267 of the Peruvian National Police Law, PNP troops are intervening with former President Pedro Castillo,” the institution reported in a tweet that was later deleted.

The images released showed Castillo in the prefecture with the prosecutor and other police and justice officials.

Subsequently, Boluarte was sworn in as new president of the republicthe first woman to hold this position in Peru.

In his first message to the nation, rejected Castillo’s “coup attempt”which, he says, has “not found an echo in the institutions of democracy and in the streets”.

“I demand a political truce set up a government of national unity. This high responsibility must be assumed by all and for all,” he said.

“It’s up to us to talk, to dialogue, to reach an agreement, something as simple as it has been impracticable in recent months. I therefore call for a broad process of dialogue between all the political forces represented or not in Congress.”

Boluarte announced that its first measure is launch a fight against corruption in state institutions for which he requested the support of the National Prosecutor’s Office and the General Prosecutor’s Office to “enter without half measures into corrupt institutions”.

Late Wednesday afternoon, clashes erupted between Castillo supporters and police in downtown Lima.

By Guillermo D. Olmo, BBC News Mundo correspondent in Peru

Pedro Castillo thought the best defense was a good attack, but the game went wrong. His attempt to neutralize the vacancy against him with the dissolution of Congress ended with him out of the presidency and into police stations.

His latest decision, widely described as undemocratic, also prevents his international allies from defending him.

Its future already seems much more penal than political.

His critics in Peru will breathe a sigh of relief after his fall, but the political crisis is far from over. Castillo is the fifth president since 2017, a fact that illustrates the permanent instability in which the country lives.

His successor, Dina Boluarte, will have to face many problems that ended up condemning the professor, mainly the fragmentation of a capricious Congress and the difficulty in forming a capable government with sufficient support to develop its program. It is not finished.

The rapid escalation of the political situation in Peru has sparked various reactions across the continent.

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorexpressed on Twitter: “We consider it regrettable that, in the interest of the economic and political elites, since the beginning of the legitimate presidency of Pedro Castillo, a climate of confrontation and hostility has been maintained against him until it has led him to take decisions that have served his adversaries to consummate his dismissal with the follow gAndneris precept of “moral incapacity”.

The Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard He said Mexico could receive it. “We have a pro-asylum policy. If he asks for it, we shouldn’t oppose him, but he didn’t,” he told reporters.

From Chilithe Foreign Office said it “deeply regrets the situation” and called for a quick solution.

Argentina He said through his foreign ministry that he “regrets and expresses deep concern over the political crisis” and called on “all political and social actors to protect democratic institutions, the rule of law and the constitutional order.”

There AndAmerican Embassyin Lima He expressed his rejection of “any extra-constitutional act by President Castillo aimed at preventing Congress from fulfilling its mandate”.

Prior to his dismissal and subsequent arrest, Castillo, in a message to the nation, assured that his decision to dissolve Congress met the “obYes“destruction” to which your government has been confronted by the Legislative Power.

“In response to citizen demands across the country, we have made the decision to set up an emergency government aimed at establishing the rule of law and democracy,” he said.

Castillo took over the presidency in July 2021. Since then, he has faced multiple corruption allegations and he was forced to change his portfolio of ministers on several occasions.

“We have spent more than 16 months in a continuous and relentless campaign of attack on the presidential institution, a situation never seen before in Peruvian history. The only agenda of Congress since July 29, 2021, in which I was sworn in as President of the Republic, has been and is the presidential vacancy,” he explained.

Eventually, due to lack of support, Congress won the game and fired Castillo, now detained and charged with rebellion.

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