There was a reshuffle. Congressman Alex Paredes, from the Magisterial Bloc, assumed the presidency of the Ethics Commission, as announced by Perú21.
WATCH: Congress: The Ethics Commission will be reconstituted this Monday
Elizabeth Taipe, from Peru Libre, will be the vice president; and Nelcy Heindinger, from APP, the secretary.
This occurred after the non-partisan congresswoman Margot Palacios, invited by Juntos Por el Perú (JPP), proposed said list.
First, the recomposition of the board of directors was put to a vote, with nine votes in favour and three abstentions.
The list of candidates was put to a vote and received the green light with 10 votes in favour and two abstentions.
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This is how the vote on the recomposition of the Ethics Commission was held. (Video: Congress)
RECOMPOSITION
Peru21 He revealed yesterday that there would be some changes today in that important working group.
This is because the Ethics Committee had placed the recomposition of its board of directors on its agenda.
The congressman of Popular Renewal and former member of that commission, Esdras Medina, pointed out last Sunday Peru21 that if the board of directors were reconstituted – as happened today – he would have to leave that group because his bench only has one seat, and this “must be occupied by Bazán, because he is the assigned congressman.”
“I wouldn’t mind stepping aside if that happened,” Medina told this newspaper.
At the end of today’s session, Bazán told Canal N that he reaffirms his position that the Ethics Commission should disappear to make way for a commission made up of personalities who are not congressmen to avoid shielding and to maintain independence.