Víctor García Toma on Congress: "The extreme left wants to lead us to political tension"

Updated 02/03/2023 07:05 PM m.

For the constitutional lawyer Victor Garcia Takes The bills presented in recent days not only do not have a consensus, but also one of them, presented by the congressman Jaime Quito of Free Peruit’s a danger”.

Why did Congress not reach a consensus with the advancement of elections to 2023 proposed by Fuerza Popular?

Unfortunately Fuerza Popular has diverted the course of the previous debate. Fuerza Popular opted for a clumsy formula because there was talk of a shorter period without reforms within a climate of violence, where a change of authorities is not opportune because there was no longer talk of a five-year period but of a complementary period. No sensible government can make government policy plans in a short time.

Interview with Victor Garcia Toma

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Do you think that Peru Libre conditions the exit to the crisis?

What they are trying to do is something much more dangerous, Peru Libre presented a bill to advance the elections to 2023 in a period of four months and the electoral authorities have said that they are not trained to carry out this process in such a short time. time. Plus, he’s smuggling in the constituent assembly. What a sector of Congress – that of the extreme left – wants is to take us to the bullfighting polls for a Constituent Assembly. They want to lead us to a political tension outside the framework of the Constitution.

Is there any constitutional way out?

We must have a firm decision from the democratic sector of what has been generated based on blackmail. The Executive has the urgent responsibility to restore political order because there are no fundamental rights for all Peruvians. When that is achieved, we have to insist on the need, in a short period of time, to go to elections to renew the political class because this, obviously, now does not have the endorsement of the citizenry. This renovation has to be done with better rules.