The full of Congress of the republic will meet this Wednesday, October 19 from 3 in the afternoon to resume the process of electing the new Ombudsmandespite the fact that the exhortation of the Third Constitutional Court of Lima of provisionally suspend such selection until the suspension protection process presented by the Union of the Ombudsman.
During the first days of October, the Plenary could not obtain the necessary votes for the election of the new defender, after none of the three candidates obtained the necessary consensus.
After the dismissal of the constitutional lawyers Carlos Castro Barriga, Jorge Rioja and Beatriz Ramírez; Three other options remain on the list: Gaston Soto Vallenas, Cayo Galindo Sandoval and Victor Garcia Toma. However, the latter withdrew his candidacy.
In this regard, last Tuesday 18, Victor Garcia Takes He chose to step aside his intention to hold the post of Ombudsman and made it known in a letter sent today to the President of Parliament, Joseph Williams.
“I express the decision to decline any proposal on the matter,” García Toma mentions in the document. Although he avoided commenting on the development of the applicant selection process and the order of the Third Constitutional Court of Lima to suspend the process.
“I believe that, given the current circumstances of the political and moral crisis plaguing the country, I can be more useful by expressing my opinions freely and without eventually having to compromise the institutional line of a constitutional body,” he added.
