They got away with it. After unsuccessful attempts by plenary session of the Congress to approve an advance of general elections, and when everything suggested that the way out of the political crisis would be in the project presented by the Executive to anticipate the elections to October, The Constitution Commission agreed, by majority, to postpone the discussion of said initiative until the next annual period of sessions that begins on July 27.
What happened? The Popular Action legislator, Ilich López –syndicated as a member of the ‘Los Niños’ group–, presented a point of order alleging that, according to article 78 of the Regulations of Congress, if a proposal is rejected “the same proposal cannot be presented or another to be dealt with on the same matter until the next annual session, unless agreed by half plus one of the legal number of congressmen”. And it is that the proposal to advance the elections, as is known, was widely discussed by the Plenary of Congress in recent days and finally sent to the file when consensus was not reached.
López’s request revived the confrontation between those who were for and against the early elections. Once the vote was produced then, the 14 votes necessary to continue with the debate on the constitutional reform project in this legislature were not obtained. The issue can only be discussed from July 27. In practice, however, that will not happen either, because the initiative contemplates electoral deadlines that will already be completely out of date by that date.
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Patricia Juárez, former president of the Constitution Commission, affirmed that what corresponds now, to those who voted against the issue being debated, is to explain to the citizens what happened before the impossibility of the different benches to reach a consensus.
What is the way out of the crisis? The resignation? “We do not believe that the exit goes through a resignation of President Dina Boluarte. The government has to establish itself well and go more for pacification, ”she stressed to Peru21.
For other parliamentarians, however, in the current social and political scenario of the country, there is no room for anything but the resignation of the president who, just on Thursday, ratified that she will not resign or give in to “anarchic political blackmail.” Carlos Anderson said it, also Jaime Quito. The only concrete thing at this point is that the congressmen will not go home, at least not in 2023.
