Is it realistic to hold a general election before 2024?

Is it realistic to postpone the general election until 2024? Congressmen from different benches are analyzed in News extension the possibility of holding elections in December, a few months before next year’s April proposal; as a way to address the anti-government protests currently taking place in the country.

Viktor Kutipafrom Peru, Bicentenario, advocated early elections, but avoided commenting on the possibility of December elections until he received a suggestion that “they will definitely brief us in plenary today.”

“From there we will learn about it, and the issue will be discussed through the Constitutional Commission,” he said, recalling that there is already a proposal for early elections approved in the first legislative body.

On your side, Wilson Sotoa congressman from Acción Popular, said his bench voted for an early election, but “with clear political reforms, with clear electoral reforms.”

“There is a sector that wants an express move, fast,” he complained, referring to the possibility that the elections will take place in December.

While, Rosio Torresfrom Alianza para el Progreso, said his bench is not opposed to early elections, “but it must be done as part of the process and changes that we need at this time.”

In this regard, he believed that it would be “irresponsible” to promote elections for December. “There are processes, you must respect these processes in order to achieve elections. It will be for April 2024 because we need reforms right now,” he commented.

“The crisis will not be resolved because we are making 2023 or 2024; two or three months more or less,” he said.

What reforms can be carried out?

Legislators have agreed that political and electoral reforms before early elections. For example, for Wilson Sotoit is necessary to move to bicameralism in Congress, since, in his opinion, “Peru is underrepresented” in the legislature.

“We must go to the polls with new rules of the game. The question of political reform, the question of bicameralism. Before 1992, we Peruvians had 12 million voters, now we have 26 million voters,” he commented.

Another necessary reform for Soto concerns primaries in political parties. “Will we have candidates manually? In “People’s Action” we practice internal elections – one fighter – one vote,” he said.

Rosio TorresMeanwhile, he said that “minimal reforms are needed in the short term that we have.” “We are putting it on the agenda, I think many colleagues agree, we have a bicameral system, the first elections,” he said.

Viktor Kutipa He was opposed to reform by the current Congress because “we don’t have enough legitimacy.” In this regard, he questioned the promotion of the issue of bicameralism, since “the re-election of parliamentarians is camouflaged (sic)”.

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