The Prime Minister of Peru, Héctor Valer, records complaints of family violence for allegedly having physically assaulted his late wife and daughteras reported in the local press this Wednesday, just one day after he took office.
According to a judicial resolution published by the newspaper El Comercio, orIn 2017, a Peruvian court issued protection measures in favor of Valer’s wife, Ana María Montoyaafter she denounced him, along with her daughter Catherine Valer, for physical violence.
The events would have occurred in October 2016, when mother and daughter denounced that they had been attacked by the current head of the ministerial cabinetinside your home.
In the court ruling, according to the aforementioned media, the judge mentioned the existence of a medical certificate issued to the wife the day after the complaint “from which it flows that there are indicators of corporal abuse, presumably from the accused Héctor Valer.”
Given these “sufficient indications”, the court decided to issue protective measures in favor of Montoya and prohibited Valer from “any conduct that constitutes violence and/or harassment to the detriment” against her, who died last year, as recorded in the Journal of parliamentary debates.
The magistrate, on the other hand,o agreed to order protection measures against the daughter considering the lack of evidence to determine if she was physically affected for the acts of violence that he had reported.
According to the complaint released on social networks by former Interior Minister Carlos Basombrío, among others, Catherine accused her father of having “slapped her, punched her, tied her face and different parts of her body, and pulled her hair.”
Judicial process for debts of old domicile
The brand new prime minister would also have faced a judicial process of eviction for not paying the bills of his old home in the Lima district of San Borja, according to what Valer’s former neighbors reported to local media, who pointed out that it was “conflictive and problematic” and that on one occasion he even attacked the security personnel of the municipality.
Valer took office the day before as head of the new ministerial cabinet of the Government of Pedro Castillo, who with his appointment tried to end the crisis that began last Friday in the Executive, when the then Minister of the Interior, Avelino Guillén, resigned as he did not feel supported in his recommendation to dismiss Police Chief Javier Gallardo, with whom he had major disagreements.
Following Guillén’s departure, Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez stated that the government had reached “a critical moment” and resigned, considering that the situation was part of “a structural problem of corruption in various state instances.”
His resignation forced Castillo to form a third government team since he took office on July 28, 2021, a period in which he has accumulated several crises and which has now led the political opposition to announce that it will present a motion to try dismiss him.
Valer is a lawyer specialized in criminal law who was elected congressman for the period 2021-2026 by the far-right Renovación Popular party, but soon resigned from that group to join the centrist group of Somos Perú and later formed the Democratic Peru caucus, with a group of dissident legislators from various benches. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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