The possibility was opened so that there could be, next year, early presidential and congressional elections. The Plenary Session of Congress, with 63 votes against, 41 in favor and three abstentions, decided today to reject Congressman Jorge Montoya’s request for reconsideration so that the Constitution Commission can no longer receive electoral reform bills.
With the rejection of Montoya’s proposal, the Constitution Commission has the green light to once again receive electoral reform bills, and to once again approve an opinion that goes to the Plenary, and can be debated again. In case that happens, the approval in the Plenary would need 87 votes, and that it is in turn in two legislative periods.
And, furthermore, if it does not reach 87 votes, but does obtain 66 votes or a majority, the electoral reform would have to be submitted to a referendum. For this reason, the elections would have to be held in the year 2024.
As recalled, in the previous plenary session on February 19, the vote on the request of the spokesman for Popular Renewal, Jorge Montoya, was pending so that this issue does not return to the Constitution commission.
On that occasion, the president of Congress, José Williams, did not put Montoya’s request to a vote, and it was left pending for it to be put to the scrutiny of legislators in today’s session.
That same day, the request to advance the elections to 2023 was rejected, but a request for reconsideration was approved so that this issue could return to the Constitution Commission, and be debated again, but Montoya opposed it and filed a reconsideration of that request. reconsideration, which today was finally rejected.
