The Congress of Peru, with 93 votes in favor, 30 against and one abstention, approved advancing the elections to April 2024. Meanwhile, the family of former president Pedro Castillo was granted safe-conduct to Mexico, while Lima decided to declare a person non grata to the Mexican ambassador and gave him three days to leave the country
The Peruvian Congress approved, on the night of Tuesday, December 20, the constitutional reform that allows the elections in the Andean nation to be brought forward to April 2024, as President Dina Boluarte had promised in recent days.
“The President of the Republic currently in office calls for general elections, which will take place in April 2021. Her term ends on July 28, 2024. The congressmen finish their representation on July 26, 2024,” it reads. in the document presented by the Constitution Commission.
The vote, with 93 endorsements, 30 rejections and only one abstention, opens the door for the presidential and legislative terms to end in July 2024. However, a second vote is needed to endorse the decision of Congress.
Hernando Guerra García, president of the Constitution Commission, was the promoter of the reform and had urged his colleagues to carry out a high-level debate after having had two setbacks with the proposal by not previously reaching the 87 necessary votes in two legislatures or 66 supports, ratified in a referendum.
Meanwhile, the family of former President Pedro Castillo received the safe-conduct to travel to Mexico and enjoy the political asylum that the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador granted him.
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Former First Lady Lilia Paredes and her children moved to the Jorge Chávez airport to arrive in the United States in the next few hours. Paredes is also being investigated for belonging to an alleged criminal organization like her husband.
She will be able to remain in Mexico unless Peru requests her extradition, according to the Caracas Convention signed in 1964.
In contrast, the Government of Peru declared the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy Conesa, persona non grata, granting him 72 hours to leave the country. He considers that the expressions of President López Obrador on the subject are “especially serious” due to the situation of violence due to the protests generated as a result of the dismissal of Castillo.
“For the repeated expressions of the highest authorities of that country about the political situation in Peru that constitute interference in our internal affairs and, therefore, are in violation of the principle of non-intervention. To date, a diplomatic note has been delivered to him through which he is notified that he has 72 hours to leave the national territory, ”said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Gervasi Díaz.
With information from Trade / The Republic / Peru21 / PTR /
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