January 29, 2023, 10:40 PM
January 29, 2023, 10:40 PM
“Ladies and gentlemen of Congress: you have to understand your historical responsibility. Tomorrow (Monday 30) you have the opportunity to earn the trust of the country, meeting this long-awaited demand by the Peruvian people. Vote for Peru, in favor of the countryadvancing the elections to 2023 and let us tell all of Peru with the highest responsibility, that We are going all”, Dina Boluarte pointed out in her presidential message on Sunday night.
The Peruvian Congress is expected to define, this Monday, if the elections in that country can be held in this administration.
Boluarte regretted the violent days that are taking place in Peru, due to the demonstrations that seek new elections and reforms to its Constitution.
“Responsibility depends solely and exclusively on the Congress of the Republic approve the early elections for this year 2023; For this reason, I announce that, if consensus does not prosper in Congress tomorrow to discuss the advancement of elections to 2023, the executive will immediately present two legislative initiatives as a matter of urgency,” Boluarte announced in his message, also posted on social media.
The first initiative seeks to debate a constitutional reform so that the general elections are “inevitably this year 2023, the first round in October and the second, if applicable, in December”. For this, there must be a constitutional reform with special transitory provisions, he pointed out.
His proposal establishes the cut the term of congressmen and of the representatives before the Andean Parliament, who were elected in 2021. In addition, the president should call lessons for the second Sunday of October this year; the law should be approved, as she said, until next February 28.
“This regulatory proposal responds to the urgent need to improve the levels of democratic legitimacy of the political representation of the country, situation that will allow the population to institutionally channel, and not through violence, their main demands to the national political agenda”, argued the Peruvian authority.
The second proposal is that “the next elected congress entrusts the Constitution Commission with the total reform of the 1993 Constitution.”
In this way, the Peruvian Congress must propose a project for the total reform of the Constitution and, after being approved by that instance, it must be submitted to a referendum.
He asked that “the active participation of the population in the debate for the design and approval of the constitutional reform” be promoted.
