The fight between

Pedro Castillo

and the Peruvian Prosecutor's Office has experienced a new chapter in the midst of the political crisis in the Andean country, an increasingly high obstacle course for the teacher and union member from Cajamarca.

The president left his stronghold in the Casa de Pizarro to go to the headquarters of the Public Ministry and thus meet with the country's attorney general, Zoraida Ávalos, in an attempt to defuse the tension experienced in the last hours.

The official version is that Castillo came to request that

his statement at the Government Palace be rescheduled 24 hours before

, scheduled for 29 this month, given his "busy schedule." Prosecutors are investigating whether the presidency intervened in the promotion of officers of the Armed Forces, an "alleged interference." The diligence is part of the

investigation that is being carried out against the former Minister of Defense,

Walter Ayala, and against the former Secretary General of the Presidential Office, Bruno Pacheco, for the alleged crimes of abuse of authority and illegal patronage.

A good part of the presidential scandals revolve around Pacheco, a key figure in the Castillo environment, including the one that caused Monday's raid on Peruvian prosecutors at the presidential facilities.

The first information, including an internal note from the Prosecutor's Office, assures that Castillo

prevented the investigators from accessing for an hour.

"At no time has there been any provision for the purpose of not conducting proceedings in some areas of the Government Palace," said the Presidency in a statement that "accompanied" the now collaborator Castillo to the Prosecutor's Office.

In parallel to the conciliatory strategy,

Castillo has hired a controversial defense lawyer

, who has demanded that the deputy prosecutor Luis Alberto Medina be removed from the process that is being followed against the Peruvian Hugo Chávez (general manager of PetroPerú), after the "leak" to the Press about the events that took place on Monday at the Presidential Palace. The PetroPerú case is the last that has exploded in the hands of Castillo, who met with Hugo Chávez and the general manager of Heaven Petroleum Operators a few days before this company obtained a million-dollar tender with PetroPerú.

Events as unprecedented as those that have accompanied the presidency of the leftist leader in less than five months. Medina behaved in an "abusive and overwhelming" manner during the search of the presidential headquarters to investigate the PetroPerú Case. Prosecutors searched for evidence in the Secretary of the Presidential Office, occupied until weeks ago by Bruno Pacheco, who then found an

envelope with $ 20,000 hidden in the bathroom.

Pacheco now argues that it was the money from an inheritance and not his saved wages, as he said then.

Castillo's lawyer has approached the Special Prosecutor's Office on Corruption of Public Officials to ensure that the prosecutor Medina tried to seize cell phones, machines, computers and files in addition to taking statements from secretaries, assistants and policemen whom he "threatened to report for crimes of obstruction of justice ".

The defender also accuses him of filtering the raid on journalists, another of the great shortcomings of whoever was the standard bearer for the leftist Peru Libre.

Castillo only offers remote-controlled statements and does not submit to press conferences or questions from journalists.

He is also not comfortable with interviews, as was already clear during the election campaign.

Who has also come to the fore to scold Castillo is his predecessor, Francisco Sagasti, who stressed that "no state provider and no contractor stepped on his Presidential Office. There are other spaces where this is handled," criticized the centrist leader.

"It is difficult to imagine a worse start for an administration," political scientist John Polga-Hacimovich told EL MUNDO, who is convinced that the future removal of Castillo is only a matter of time.

Only six votes separated the right-wing benches from forcing the impeachment motion against the president.

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