The amount that Congress has deducted from missing parliamentarians from August 2022 to date is no small thing. In total, as Peru21 was able to verify, there are more than S/819,000 who stopped receiving benefits due to being absent from the sessions of the Plenary and the Permanent Commission, despite the fact that article 92 of the Constitution indicates that their work is full-time.
2023 was the year in which the most absences were recorded, which caused a discount of more than S/285,000 soles. Meanwhile, in 2025, a pre-election year in which legislators were already outlining their options to seek re-election, they stopped attending Congress to such an extent that more than 229,000 soles were deducted from them.
Of the 130 parliamentarians in office, 86 seek to occupy the next bicameral Congress, 57 of them are running for the Senate and 29 for the Chamber of Deputies, and two more aspire to the unnecessary Andean Parliament, whose projects are not binding nor have they contributed to improving the national regulatory framework.
In this regard, former senior Congress officer César Delgado Güembes told Perú21 that, currently, the justifications for the absences of congressmen “have been minor”, which is why he considers that there is “a generalized neglect” that causes them to not give importance to requesting a license even though they could be eligible for the discount.
“There is a certain negligence even in the justification. They don’t care much even though their own dignity is at stake,” he lamented.
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