Congressmen insist new elections must be accompanied by reforms

Congress will see this Monday, starting at 11:00 a.m., a re-examination of the debate on what early election be held in 2023 instead of April 2024, after a proposal by President of the Fujimorista Constitutional Commission was rejected last Friday Hernando Guerra Garcia.

AT News extensionpopulist congressman Luis Aragon said no consensus inside your shop to support the revision of the aforementioned vote, not least the proposal to hold elections this year. The same scenario, he stressed, is written in most of the benches.

“I would like there to be a consensus from my bench; however, we must be honest, there is no single position to vote for or against the revision,” he said.

In this line Aragon He said that at some point he thought it appropriate to postpone the elections to this year, while the priority is given to the implementation of minimal reforms that guarantee a “smart way out” of the political and social crisis.

“Congress voted to hold elections next April; however, I said that if there is a need to advance the electoral process until 2023, then in advance. But what does the Chairman of the Constitutional Commission offer us? He tells us: “Sir, let’s do this preliminary process, but nothing else in return,” he asked.

“If we need a process for 2023, [debe haber] some minimum condition or reform,” he added.

APP will support revision of the vote, announces Saluana

In turn, Congressman of the Alliance for Progress (APP) Eduardo Saluana stressed that his shop supported in December last year the proposal constitutional reform thus general election are held in 2023; however, he recalled, this initiative did not receive the support of the majority at the plenary session of the Congress.

A) Yes, saluana announced that today the Apepist Bench will vote for plenary session of the Congress reopen the discussion to advance general election by this year. “APP will support this revision,” he said.

If consensus is reached on holding elections in 2023 congressman APP considered that, despite the tight deadlines, it could be developed political and electoral reforms to prevent a repetition of the scenario of social upheaval in the management of the new executive and legislative power.

“Go [a nuevas elecciones] With the same rules, the same mechanisms and the same actors, there will be the same result, and maybe in two or three years it will no longer be the South, but the North will again ask everyone to leave,” he said. indicated.

That’s why he congressman APP urged his fellow parliamentarians to “reach consensus” in response to the crisis that the country has been suffering from since December 7, when then President Pedro Castillo tried to stage a coup d’état.

“We need calm and reflection. There is a lot of responsibility on Congress right now,” he said.

Elections in April 2024 will allow for reforms, says Enrique Wong.

For his part, the former second vice-president of the parliament in the period 2021-2022. Enrique Wong (Podemos Peru) called for “calm” and “patience” to determine the success of the elections.

Wong He favors holding elections in April 2024, as originally proposed by the executive branch, for political and electoral reforms to accompany new elections.

“We are proposing to move to the approach we originally voted for: holding elections in April. [de 2024] because minimum deadlines are respected for all Peruvians who want to participate,” he said.

Also Congressman Podemos Peru He was against the approach of some of his colleagues regarding the resignation Dina Boluarte force early elections. To WongCongress and the executive must work together to confront the political and social crisis.

“I ask for peace, patience and stability at the level of state forces. She [Dina Boluarte] was constitutionally determined. She must stay [el tema] how we face the crisis and the real culprit of it all, who [Pedro] Castillo,” he concluded.