The President of the Council of Ministers, Hannibal Torrescommunicated this Saturday that the Government of Pedro Castillo will evaluate whether or not to observe the autograph of the law that modify and make flexible the electoral rules for Regional and Municipal Elections of 2022.
In a dialogue with TV Peru, Torres Vásquez indicated that the approval of contested regulations by Congress “It’s been going on for some time.”
“If Congress passes a law that violates the Constitution and the legal system, we have to observe it. If we don’t, we incur a fault. As in this case, the game has already started, we are about to reach half time, and we have changed the rules of the game. That’s not right,” he declared.
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“We have to study this situation well in the Executive. (Is the law going to be observed?) I am still not sure if it is going to be observed. We are going to study well how to solve this problem. Congress should not take it the wrong way (possible objections to the autograph),” the prime minister added.
When asked if the law has a “proper name” —because it would benefit Popular Renewal and Alliance for Progress—, Aníbal Torres asserted that this was “the objective” of the law, but he does not consider that “Congress is doing it in bad faith.”
“What happens is that there is an error, bad advice. Congress has to be a little more careful in hiring advisers, so as not to incur these facts, ”he pointed out.
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Experts question rule that ‘relaxes’ electoral rules
In dialogue with La República, the specialists José Naupari and Luciano López questioned the aforementioned ruleas a result of the fact that it was approved by the plenary session of Parliament without a commission opinion, a requirement established in the regulations of Congress to modify organic laws, such as that of Political Organizations.
The experts agree that the articles of the aforementioned rule on the operation of the Registry of Political Organizations and the registration of affiliates have an organic nature by regulating aspects of the procedure to exercise the right to elect and be elected.
