President peter castle asked the Congress to attend this Tuesday, March 15, to the hemicycle to give a speech before the national representation. On the afternoon of Monday 14, the head of the Board of Directors, Maria del Carmen Alva (Popular Action), He called on him not to mention the points about the presidential vacancy in his gathering. However, the head of state is not prohibited from doing so.
“The Constitution only establishes one topic as mandatory, the subject of the presidential message, when it comes to the message that the president addresses at the beginning of the annual legislature. There, the Constitution says what it should deal with, but from there messages that the president directs to Congress at another time, can be on any subject, because the Constitution does not establish any limitation”, the constitutionalist Omar Cairo specified to La República.
In this regard, he added that Alva Prieto It has the power to request the Head of State to omit certain topics as a suggestion, but it cannot demand it.
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“(Alva) can ask (Castillo) to talk about a certain topic and not talk about another, but as a request, as an exhortation, he does not oblige the president. He can absolutely speak about what he considers pertinent, ”added the lawyer.
The document that was sent to Castle Lumps He points out that the Board of Spokespersons agreed that they will receive him in Congress at 5:00 pm to receive his message, and they also add the invocation.
“Furthermore, considering that a motion proposing the vacancy of the Presidency of the Republic is in process, I respectfully request you not to make reference to matters contained in said proposal”, says the letter Alva sent to Castillo.
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Senior official indicates that Castillo has not been prohibited from speaking about the vacancy
The senior official of Congress, Hugo Rovira Zagal, emphasized that in the document sent to the president he has not been prohibited from addressing any specific issue, but that an “invocation in a very respectful manner” has been made to himbecause Congress does not have the power to limit the message that the head of state would give.
“Since he hasn’t told us what he’s going to talk about, we tell him in the office to tell us, because he already knows what he’s going to talk about. He is invoked, he has not been forbidden. For this reason, we have taken great care in the referral office. The president (of Congress) has been very careful with this, because there is no article in the regulations that prohibits her (talking about) the subject, ”she declared for RPP.
