Flor Pablo proposes holding early elections in October 2023

congresswoman flower pablo medina presented on Constitutional Commission replacement text to new general election will take place on October 15 this year, and not in April 2024, as proposed by the government of Dina Boluarte in the face of a political and social crisis.

Recently, the head of the Constitutional Commission, Hernando Guerra Garcia, raised before the plenary session of the Congress the issue of revising the vote to postpone the elections to 2024 in order to hold replacement text and set an advance for the current year.

In her letter to the head of this working group, the legislator emphasized that the revision of the date elections is based on “social upheavals” that claimed the lives of more than 50 people in the regions of the country, especially in the south, and “ungovernance affecting the provision of public services and the ability to generate development.”

“We are obliged to reconsider the proposal to postpone the elections to April 2024, approved by the first vote. For this reason, I am sending you a replacement text with a proposal for a provisional timetable for the October 2023 general election for discussion and approval,” the document reads. Official Letter No. 400-2023-2024/FMP-CR.

AT News extension RPP, flower floor admitted that it would be ideal if early election accompanied by a series of reforms; however, he indicated that this scenario involved holding elections in 2024 Due to the lack of consensus on Congress carry out political and electoral reforms.

“I raised this request because the exit was raised yesterday [en referencia al pedido de Hernando Guerra García] in the face of a terrible scenario of convulsions, losses, deaths and civil unrest. […] The ideal is with reforms, but this means 2024, citizens do not accept this; the real thing is 2023,” he said.

Schedule of new elections

in your document, Paul Medina He proposed an election schedule and specified that March 2023 would be the deadline for calling a general election. According to his calculations, internal elections may be held in late April or early May.

After this process, the congresswoman declares, Sunday, October 15 will be the date first round President, Congress and representatives in the Andean Parliament. Subsequently, on November 12, presidential second round

If the schedule proposed also former Minister of Educationthe new congressmen and representatives of the Andean Parliament will be sworn in on December 29, and the new President of the Republic will take office on December 31, 2023.

congressman explained that his proposal has technical support from the National Electoral Jury (JNE), which he requested Constitutional Commission Consider the proposed schedule promotion of general elections for this year.