The JNE qualifies as “unsustainable” a congressional prognosis that seeks to change the plenary session of said electoral body.

The National Electoral Jury (JNE) ruled on the Congressional Constitutional Commission’s constitutional reform outlook, “which proposes to modernize and strengthen electoral system“And this will be discussed today, on Friday, in the said parliamentary working group.

In a social media statement, the electoral body called the proposed reform “unworkable” as it would aim to “change the composition of the electoral commission.” JNE plenary session”and establish “permanent special electoral juries”.

“Intervention” by “political decisions”

In this regard, the JNE argued that “it does not seem reasonable to interfere and interfere under the weight of exclusively political decisions in the activities of a constitutionally autonomous body.”

He also explained that with the aforementioned forecast, there would be “imbalances” in the composition JNEwhich would lead to a “negative” development of its function.

“The reduction in the number of magistrates who are members of the Supreme Court of Electoral Affairs (…) does not guarantee the administration of justice in accordance with constitutional prescriptions, making it clear that electoral processes have a special dynamics and very short deadlines. make decisions, resulting in a very high risk of non-compliance,” said JNE.

In turn, the constituency accused that “meaning the exclusion of a representative of the Supreme Court” at the plenary session of the Supreme Court. JNE – who is currently Justice of the Peace Jorge Luis Salas Arenas – “without any technical support and only on political criteria”.

“The reduction of his actions to administrative functions (…) suggests an arbitrary reduction in his powers under the Magna Carta. (In addition, the resolution does not establish what the function of the Plenum will be, since in practice it disappears,” the statement emphasizes.

Suspensions and vacancies

On the powers of the Plenum JNE With regard to suspensions and vacancies of municipal and regional governments, the report indicates that the forecast Congress “attempts to separate the administrative from the jurisdictional by directly establishing the first electoral jurisdictional instance”, which would be Permanent decentralized electoral juries.

“Without regard to the fact that the administrative procedure must have an appeal, which would jeopardize due process and the right to plurality of administrative instances, affecting the autonomy of municipal councils and regional councils,” the statement said. JNE.

On the other hand, the electoral body argued that “increasing the number of processing bodies and procedures will not only make the service more expensive, but will also cause financial damage to the user.”

“The forecast proposed by the Constitutional Commission (…) has no basis related to the budget, there is no analysis on this issue, it is limited to only an inaccurate indication in terms of cost analysis,” the statement says.

“The legislative draft significantly affects the independence and functional autonomy of JNE and denatures its structure,” the document ends.

Exceptions from Congress

Constitution and Regulation Commission A congress chaired by Fujimorista Hernando Guerra Garcia spoke via Twitter defending the prediction in question.

“The Constitutional Commission proposes to provide the Plenum with JNE the ability to create permanent decentralized electoral juries in accordance with their needs, the ability to create permanent decentralized electoral juries in the north, center and south of the country,” they stressed.

In this sense, they pointed out that the proposal “does not propose the transformation of special electoral juries into permanent ones.”