Early elections: Jaime Quito calls for Dina Boluarte’s resignation after Peru Libre proposal rejected

congressman Jaime Quitoproposer Free Peru postpone elections to 2023 and consult on the possibility constituent Assembly, questioned the decision of the plenum of parliament to reject this initiative. The legislator indicated that after voting against, the only solution is the resignation of the president Dina Boluarte.

In press statements after Congress by rejecting a minority bill on constitutional reform, the MP has shied away from advancing his bench’s position on the executive’s draft to advance elections in 2023, which will be supported by the government this Friday at a constitutional commission meeting.

“The opinion must first be discussed in the Constitutional Commission, and then it must be published. Here, the only thing that the executive branch should present is that Dina (Boluarte) is retiring once and for all (…) We are proud to have raised what the people asked for, but the responsibility for this lies with other benches”, – he said.

“All right-wing benches want to stay. The strategy of the right was that when they had already made progress towards the elections for 2024, they did a complete rethink with the goal of achieving nothing, we condemned this. “Cabinet of death”, it remains only to say that they are retiring,” he added.

Moments before, a plenary session of Congress had disapproved—by 75 votes in favour, 48 against, and 1 abstention—a minority opinion on constitutional reform that proposed postponing the general election to 2023 and holding a consultative referendum to convene constituent Assembly.

Under the proposal, the 2023 general election was scheduled to elect the President, Vice Presidents, Congressmen of the Republic and Andean Parliamentarians, to be held on the second Sunday of July 2023. Andean congressmen and parliamentarians will end his representative period on September 29, 2023.

The term of office of the current President of the Republic expires on 30 September 2023. The congressmen of the Republic and Andean parliamentarians, elected for a new term, will begin their functions on September 30, 2023 and end their work on July 26, 2026. The new President of the Republic, as proposed, was sworn in and took office on October 1, 2023, and his term expired on July 28, 2026.

In addition, it states that the development of a new Constitution is carried out through the Constituent Assembly and will be ratified by referendum. There is a call for a national referendum on the second Sunday of July 2023 for public consultation if the call for a Constituent Assembly is approved or rejected. If approved, the call will be made within a maximum of 90 calendar days after the announcement of the results.

The Remaining Way: The Executive Branch Stands Before Congress

Having exhausted the possibilities of Congress, executive power will have to support in parliament a new constitutional reform bill that establishes a change in the term of office of the President of the Republic and the representation of Andean congressmen and parliamentarians elected in the 2021 general election.

Just this afternoon, in an official letter, the secretariat Chairman of the Council of Ministers asked the Minister of Justice Jose Tellosupport this Friday, February 3rd until Constitutional Commission executive power project to advance elections in 2023.

This request comes after the aforementioned parliamentary working group was convened by the President of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otarolaso that he exposes the same day the constitutional reform bill, which establishes promotion of general elections by 2023.

The presentation of the head of the cabinet was scheduled for this Friday, February 3, at 3 pm in the hall of Raul Porras Barrenechea. Chapters Renets And ONPEas well as the president National Electoral Jury (JNE).

The three authorities were called upon to present priority reforms with the greatest impact on the political system, to be implemented in the eventual elections. However, in the case of the Prime Minister, he asked the Minister of Justice, Jose Telloto speak on your behalf.

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