Election Advances: Congressmen continue to split over new election date

Decisive day in Congress. Constitutional Commission On Tuesday, January 24, you will see a draft legislative decision presented by the Board of Directors to change the beginning of second legislature annual session period 2022-2023 The initiative aims to speed up the second vote in the early elections in April 2024.

In December 2022 plenary session of the Congress approved the initiative by 93 votes to 30, with one abstention. To advance the election to materialize, in second legislature must receive the same number of votes or more.

AT News Extension from RPP, Fuerza Popular congressman Arturo Alegria confirmed that Fujimorista bench ratifies in second vote his support for the proposal presented by the government of Dina Boluarte to postpone the elections to April 2024 after the social upheaval that caused the coup attempt and the vacancy of Pedro Castillo on 7 December.

legislator claimed that term, for a period of more than one year, will serve to harmonize and clarify political reforms which will accompany the new electoral process. If the elections are held by “the same rules of the game,” Alegria warned, it is likely that friction between the executive and the legislature, as it was valued during administration arrested former President Castillo.

“It is important to understand that what we are looking for in these reforms and this project on early elections is that this situation will not be repeated in two years. If we work on a project early election with the same rules of the game, what will happen is that we will have a divided Congress and the president that he is not keeping his campaign promises,” he said.

In this line Happiness He said he hoped that the final ratification of the new election date would help “calm down the current political situation” that Peru is going through.

Elections to be held in 2023, insists Margo Palacios

A different opinion was expressed by the parliamentarian of Peru Libre, Margot Palacios, who pointed out that new elections should be held this year, not later than July, to the noise of a part of the country that screams in unison ‘everyone leaves’, in the context of social demonstrations that left a balance of more than 50 deaths and hundreds of wounded, among protesters D police officersin southern regions such as Puno, Ayacucho, Apurimac, Cusco, among other things.

palaces He regretted that the minority opinion proposed by his colleague in the dock, Jaime Quito, regarding the general elections to be held in April this year, had not been taken into account. “This opinion is sleeping in the Constitutional Commission, obviously, it will not be discussed, because in the first legislature it was approved that elections should be held in 2024,” he asked.

“At that time I pointed out that long ago [si esperamos] until 2024 in light of the current situation. We have over 50 deaths in this government, which is not normal. From the bench of Perú Libre, we believe that the solution must be immediate and political,” he said.

Thus, the deputy hinted that the PL bench would not support the government’s initiative, noting that the elections should be held “as soon as possible.”

“As for moving forward with the elections, we have always indicated that they should be before 2024, because the situation requires it. […]. Elections should be as soon as possible so that we no longer have to report that there are more deaths in the south, ”he concluded.

Constitutional Commission chaired by Hernando Guerra Garcia (People’s Power) started its mixed session around 09:30 in the hall of Raúl Porras Barrenechea. Before seeing a draft legislative resolution to start a second legislature, working group assessed the forecast of the law on constitutional reform, which proposes to modernize and strengthen the electoral system.