La recente destituzione di Pedro Castillo (Peru) come riflesso dell’indebolimento della democrazia costituzionale in America Latina

Abstract

The recent dismissal of Pedro Castillo (Peru) as a reflection of the weakening of constitutional democracy in Latin America – This article aims to analyze the constitutional crisis arising from the removal of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo who was charged three times by the Congress in only 18 months of mandate. It points to a distortion in the use of presidential Impeachment (or “Declaration of Moral Incapability”) as a problem of Latin American Presidentialism: a context in which fragile constitutional democracies can succumb to powerful personalist leaders or parliaments that remove presidents due to their political weakness. Thus, the Peruvian case a succession of outsiders elected to the presidency did not finish their mandates as the opponent parties often hold the majority in the parliament.