On the eve of concluding the first legislature of the 2025-2026 period, the Board of Spokespersons of the Congress of the Republic agreed to hold two plenary sessions scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday the 3rd and Thursday the 4th; both in a blended manner.
These will be the last plenary sessions of this period, since the legislative period ends on December 15 and legislators have scheduled their Representation Week from the 10th to the 16th of this month.
The call for the two plenary sessions is set for 10 in the morning. In Wednesday’s session, it should be noted, starting at 5 p.m., the debate and vote on the final report that recommends disqualifying former president Pedro Castillo from public office for 10 years due to the coup d’état of December 7, 2022 is scheduled.
According to what was approved by the Board of Spokespersons, the Plenary Session will debate various opinions that imply Parliament’s spending initiative and greater spending of public resources.
Among them are those that authorize the appointment and incorporation of Essalud and Ministry of Health workers who have an indefinite-term administrative service contract (CAS) to the labor regime of Legislative Decree 728.
Also the opinion that provides for the progressive update of the remuneration scale of the employees of the Water and Environment Management Institute (IMA) and the Copesco Plan of the Regional Government of Cusco, and the one that progressively incorporates the CAS workers of the Public Ministry into the labor regime of Legislative Decree 728.
Another initiative included in the agenda refers to the declaration of national interest in the formalization of small-scale and artisanal mining activities and the creation of branches of the José María Arguedas National University (UNAJMA) in the district and province of Antabamba, department of Apurímac; and from the National University of Huancavelica (UNH) in the district of Surcubamba, province of Tayacaja, Huancavelica.
Priority has also been given to the second vote on the opinion proposing the constitutional reform law of article 93 of the Political Constitution of Peru, to restore parliamentary immunity.
It should be noted that the president of the Council of Ministers, Ernesto Álvarez, has already warned that the Executive is evaluating taking a case of an emblematic public spending initiative to the Constitutional Court (TC).
However, it must be remembered that, in 2022, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling that gave Parliament free rein to give rules that generate expenses for the State which, according to analysts, harms the country’s fiscal policy.
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