He hopes that next month white smoke will appear. The president of the Constitution Commission, Fernando Rospigliosi, told Perú21 that he hopes that, at the end of October, the debate on the bill that prevents those convicted of serious crimes from running in the 2026 elections can begin.
Look: Murderers and corrupt people have a free way to apply
Rospigliosi assured that, at this moment, he is holding consensus meetings with other parties to be able to prepare the draft of the opinion, so that it can be debated and approved before the end of October.
“The point is that we are talking with other parties to reach a consensus proposal,” he explained.
IF IT IS NOT APPROVED, MURDERERS AND CORRUPT WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY
Rospigliosi assured that he hopes that, in this legislature, the first vote on the bill can be held. This is so that in next year’s legislature, which begins in March, the second vote can be held, because it is a constitutional reform (which requires two votes in two legislatures).
If the law is not approved, those convicted of murder, corruption and serious crimes will be able to run in the next elections.
One of those who would benefit would be Antauro Humala—sentenced for murdering police officers—who would have the green light to run in the 2026 elections.
On June 13, it is remembered, Peru21 reported that the Plenary, with 90 votes, decided that the replacement text of the bill that prohibits those convicted of rebellion, sedition, mutiny, terrorism and drug trafficking from running for popularly elected positions, return to the Constitution Commission to be debated again .
On that date, the session began with the surprise announcement by the then president of the Constitution, Martha Moyano, in the plenary session, to exclude the crimes of homicide, kidnapping and corruption from the substitute text, and announced that only five sentences were included in the ruling. : rebellion, sedition, mutiny, terrorism and drug trafficking.
Until then, the law only covered Antauro Humala, sentenced for homicide and rebellion for being the author of the ‘Andahuaylazo’, an event that caused the death of four police officers and the kidnapping of another 24.
Since the crime of homicide was not included, former president Alberto Fujimori—now deceased—was also eligible to apply since he was convicted of qualified homicide. Although, days before, one of the authors of the project, Alejandro Muñante, told Perú21 that the law could not reach him because, in his opinion, he was “pardoned”, but he specified that finally the National Elections Jury (JNE) I was going to decide.
During the debate, a first preliminary question proposed by the congressman of Peru Bicentenario Elías Varas, so that the project would return to the Constitution, was rejected by the Plenary – with 69 votes in favor, 38 against and three abstentions.
Faced with the claim, Moyano added to the substitute text that people with a conviction for intentional crimes in the first instance could not apply either.
That is to say, not only those convicted with a consented or enforceable sentence, for the five crimes mentioned above, were excluded from participating for the next ten years after having been declared rehabilitated.
As it was not understood what intentional crimes Moyano was referring to, Podemos congresswoman Francis Paredes presented a new preliminary question for the ruling to return to the Constitution.
With 90 votes in favor, 22 against and two abstentions, the Plenary decided that the text return to the Constitution Commission, putting at risk that the law could be applied in the next elections in 2026. Legislators from the left and the right wanted it that way .
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