Proposals. the bench of popular action introduced two legislative initiatives in the Congress with the objective of modifying the process, election and conformation of the National Elections Jury (JNE) after it was decided to approve the early elections by April 2024 as exit to the national crisis product of the claims and protests in the interior of the country.
were the congressmen Luis Angel Aragon Y Maria Del Carmen Alva who promoted the constitutional reform bills #3952/2022-CR Y #3961/2022-CR in order to modify the designation of the members of the electoral entity, currently chaired by Judge Jorge Luis Salas Arenas.
Aragon’s proposal is to modify articles 150, 179 and 180 of the Political Constitution of Peru on the conformation of the Plenary session of the JNE.
In the document, it is established that it is the National Board of Justice (JNJ) the entity in charge of the election of the members of the entity from the Supreme Court and the Board of Supreme Prosecutors. In this sense, Aragon proposes, modifying article 179, that the JNE be made up of seven members and not five.
“Three chosen by the National Board of Justiceof which the one who occupies the first position presides over the National Election Jurythe other exercises the position of vice president and assumes the presidency in case the president is prevented from exercising the position ”, reads the document.
The initiative states that two members will be chosen by electoral suffrage of all the Bar Associations of Peruin elections held by the ONPE. In the same way, another member selected by the law schools of public universities and another chosen by private ones.
On the other hand, the proposal states that The people “on whom a conviction is handed down cannot be part of the JNE issued in the first instance, as authors or accomplices, for the commission of an intentional crime.”
Luis Aragón presented a bill to modify the process for the formation of the Plenary of the JNE. Photo: Capture of Congress
María del Carmen Alva seeks that JNE be integrated by “retired magistrates”
For his part, Maria Del Carmen Alva seeks to change articles 179 and 180 of the Magna Carta with the purpose of “grant transparency and neutrality to the National Election Jury”.
The former head of Congress also states that the highest electoral authority maintains its five members. Nevertheless, highlights that two of them must be “retired magistrates” selected by secret ballot by Supreme Court and another for the Board of Supreme Prosecutors.
Similarly, it mentions that, in the case of alternates elected by the Supreme Court and the Board of Supreme Prosecutors, “They will also be between retired magistrates and supreme prosecutors, respectively”.
Next, Alva Prieto will try to change article 180 by adding that “active magistrates” cannot be members of the JNE of the Supreme Court and the Board of Supreme Prosecutors.
The action-populist legislator points out, among her reasons, the act of Jorge Salas Arenas, since he mentions that, since his assumption of said position, to date, “A series of accusations have been raised that have led to the discredit of said electoral body., being burdensome, since it is the highest entity regarding electoral justice. Nevertheless, does not present evidence.
María del Carmen Alva presented a bill to grant “transparency and neutrality” to the National Election Jury. Photo: Capture of Congress
