Early elections LIVE: Without consensus, the plenary session is suspended until tomorrow

• 18:26 The plenary session resumes tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, at 11 a.m. because consensus has not been reached for the new bill on early elections for 2023.

• five pm The Ombudsman’s Office highlighted the reconsideration of the project to advance elections in the Congress of the Republic and urged the evaluation of the replacement text “with a sense of urgency and responsibility”.

• 16:25 The seats are still empty. Legislators from the left, center and right continue to meet to reach a consensus in order to consolidate a substitute text on the advancement of elections in 2023. To approve it they need 86 votes in favor.

• 1:40 p.m. “Our country needs to recover peace and give a democratic solution to the crisis,” says the president of Congress, José Williams on Twitter.

• 12:28 The session is suspended due to a request for a fourth intermission, from Hernando Guerra García, to seek a consensus and define the substitute text.
• 12:26 With 65 votes in favor and 49 against, the Plenary of Congress admitted the reconsideration for the advancement of elections.

• 12:08 Jorge Montoya opposes the advancement of elections, saying that it is not constitutional to advance congressional elections.
• 12:00 Congress holds a minute of silence for the death of Víctor Santisteban in the protests in Lima.

• 11:50 The session of the Plenary of Congress begins to vote for the reconsideration of the early elections.
• 11:43 Members of Congress register their attendance. There are 120 legislators present in the Chamber.
• 11:30 a.m. Prior to the start of the plenary session, the congressmen talked among themselves to try to convince their colleagues to vote for or against the project.

ORIGINAL NOTE

The plenary session of the Congress of the Republic will debate this Monday, January 30, the reconsideration of the bill proposed by the early elections for this year 2023. This, after last Saturday, Parliament rejected the initiative with 45 votes in favor, 65 against and two abstentions.

The day before, President Dina Boluarte spoke through a message to the nation and asked the legislators to reflect on their votes, in such a way that the advancement of elections for October is approved.

Along the same lines, the head of the Board of Directors, José Williams Zapata, also called for making a “responsible” decision.

“Congress will debate this Monday the reconsideration of the bill that approves the advancement of the presidential and congressional elections. I urge parliamentarians to reflect responsibly on the decision to be made, ”he wrote on his Twitter account.

What did Dina Boluarte say about the early elections?

If the advancement of elections to 2023 does not prosper today in Congress, he will present two legislative initiatives for constitutional reform, the first of them so that the general elections take place this year.

He explained that the vote would take place on the second Sunday of October, shortening the period of the Andean government, Congress and Parliament.

The president indicated that in the second proposal she will propose that the next elected Congress entrust the Constitution Commission with the total reform of the 1993 Constitution.

The latter was refuted by the constitutionalist Víctor García Toma, who pointed out that an Executive project is not required for the total reform of the Constitution. “That is carried out from Congress or by citizen initiative,” he commented.

In turn, the also constitutionalist Samuel Abad asserted that it is not a “novel proposal” and is based on a law promulgated during the government of Alejandro Toledo.

“It is not a Constituent Assembly, but it indicates that Congress assumes the total reform of the Constitution. If it is approved, it should be ratified in a referendum, ”he explained.

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