Parliamentarians from the Popular Force, Alliance for Progress, Popular Action, Popular Renewal, Avanza Country, Integrity and Development, and Podemos Peru benches chose to violate their own regulations. This, due to the fact that they approved an opinion whose substantive issue was already archived barely a month ago.
This happened this Tuesday in the Constitution Commission. The president of this working group, Fujimorist Hernando Guerra, pulled up a prediction to suspend Supreme Decree 009-2022, issued by President Pedro Castillo, under the logic of “democratizing” the Magisterial Spill.
But Congress has already tried to bring down this decree and they did not succeed. It happened on October 6, when the Plenary sent to the archive a substitute opinion of the Education Commission, where it was proposed to annul the DS-009-2022.
Article 78 of the Rules of Congress prohibits addressing the same matter, when it has already been archived. Congress would have to wait until the next annual session, which begins in August 2023, to revisit this issue.
However, Hernando Guerra presented a prediction on the same thing, only changing the expression “leave without effect” for suspension. So imprecise was his proposal that Gladys Echaiz observed that said suspension did not have a deadline.
In today’s session several legislators questioned the Fujimorist for putting on the table an issue that has already been archived, a situation that goes against the Rules of Congress.
The fujimorista insisted on the issue and, in the end, the breach of the regulations was imposed by force only of the votes. There were 15 legislators who voted in favor of the opinion.
Below are the details of the votes:
