The Integrity and Development Bench proposes to investigate congressmen, not committee chairs.

The new Board of Integrity and Development submitted on Tuesday, August 16, a draft legislative resolution to prevent congressmen under investigation and prosecution from chairing parliament. Commission on the Budget and General Account of the Republicand from Economics, banking, finance and financial intelligence.

Initiative 2825/2022-CR amends sections 20 and 34 of the congress rules, so that legislators who are investigated and prosecuted are not part of the commissions dealing with the state budget.

“If any of the members of any of these commissions, after their formation, is under investigation or brought to criminal responsibility, he immediately ceases to be a member of the commission, and their deputy group proceeds to elect a replacement,” the draft says.

Initiative to Change the Rules of Congress

In press statements, the press secretary of the bench, flower floorexplained that this project aims to “protect” the budget and accounts of the Republic in a context in which Joseph Moon (Podemos Peru), under investigation in the Gangsters of Politics case, is preparing to head the Budget Commission.

This bill proposes to amend the Rules (of Congress)so that people who are being investigated cannot be part of this commission,” he said.

In this sense, Congresswoman flower floor admonished the bench We can Peru change the representative in the Budget Committee. “Discredit Congress it is also the result of unsuccessful appointments of commission chairmen,” he said.

Similarly, he noted that his bench, along with other parliamentary groups, had signed a proposal that congressmen nicknamed “The Children”, who would have ties to President Pedro Castillo, not chair congressional committees. Among them is Raul Dorotheo, who is close to heading the Commission on Foreign Relations.