The bench of Alliance for Progress (APP)at the initiative of its spokesman, Eduardo Salhuana, presented a bill on the return to bicamerality in that state power, as well as the elimination of the vote of confidence and the regulation of the presidential vacancy.
It’s about the legislative initiative 1959/2021-CRwhich proposes to modify 42 articles of the Constitution, including 113, referring to the grounds for presidential vacancy, and 130, which regulates the presentation to Congress of the newly appointed Council of Ministers.
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Return to bicamerality
As a first point, it is proposed to modify article 90 of the Magna Carta, in order to establish that the Legislative Power must consist of two chambers: that of the Senate and the Deputies.
According to the proposal, the number of deputies would be 131elected through a multiple electoral district system. The senators would be 50elected by a mixed electoral system: 25 for each electoral district and 25 for a single electoral district.
The project states that only the Chamber of Deputies can be dissolved by the President of the Republic, specifying that it can only be done once if he has censored or denied trust to two Councils of Ministers. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Senators cannot be dissolved.
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Presidential vacancy or suspension of office
The bill also proposes to modify the articles referring to the causes of vacancy of the Presidency of the Republic and the suspension of the presidential exercise.
Thus, it is desired to modify numeral 2 of article 113, inserting the cause of “conduct incompatible with the dignity of the position declared by the plenary session of Congress”as well as removal from office.
Similarly, it seeks to specify in article 114 that the temporary incapacity for which the exercise of the Presidency of the Republic can be suspended must be declared by Congress in case of being in a judicial process.
Confidence vote
Finally, the APP constitutional reform project proposes modifications to article 130 of the Constitution, pointing out that the statement made before Parliament by the President of the Council of Ministers 30 days after his appointment “does not give rise to a vote of confidence”.
Article 132 is also modified, noting that the questions of trust raised by a minister before Congress “They must refer to matters of competence of the Executive Branch directly related to the realization of its general government policy”.
In this sense, issues related to constitutional reforms and others that affect “exclusive and excluding procedures and powers” of Parliament.
