Hours before, the Plenary voted to summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Reconsideration was raised by the Fujimorista Juárez.
LIVE Congress. The Plenary is in session today, Thursday, January 26, by order of its president, Jose Williams Zapata (Popular Renewal). Through an official letter signed by the Senior Officer, José Cevasco, all parliamentarians were informed about their face-to-face or virtual call. Meanwhile, the protests that request the removal of the entire political class continue in the capital of the country. Since Tuesday, January 17, a police cordon has prevented the protesters from entering the vicinity of Parliament.
Plenary session of Congress today, January 26
They refuse to question the Minister of Foreign Affairs
The result of the reconsideration was in favor of Gervasi. With 72 votes against and 40 in favor, the chancellor will no longer be summoned to Parliament to answer questions about the actions of her office.
They reconsider a motion for interpellation against Chancellor Gervasi
The order of business motion 5125 will be decided again after the reconsideration of the motion for interpellation against the head of Foreign Affairs is approved.
Parliament decides to declare former President Evo Morales “persona non grata” for “his public statements”
With 74 votes in favor, 40 against and 4 abstentions, the Plenary decided to declare the left-wing politician Evo Morales “persona non grata” due to his public statements about Peru.
María del Carmen Alva: “Evo Morales is not a friend of Peru”
The former president of the Board of Directors of Congress, María del Carmen Alva, declared before the vote: “There is no doubt that (…) all his manifestations (of Evo Morales) is a constant (sic) interference in the internal affairs of our country, and there is no doubt that it is not a friend of Peru”.
For Noelia Herrera, from Renovación Popular, Evo Morales “deserves” jail
The speaker chosen by Renovación Popular for the debate on declaring Evo Morales “persona non grata” was Noelia Herrera. The congresswoman pointed to the former president as an incitement to the civilians of Puno and Cusco. “He wants the great homeland at the cost of the blood of Peruvians,” she commented without evidence.
Cavero insists that “the Castillo left” incites the protests
Without showing any proof, the congressman of the orphan Avanza País party, Alejandro Cavero, insisted that the current social protests are promoted by the “Castillista left.” For him, the fact that Raúl Noblecilla has assumed the defense of Evo Morales in the complaint for treason, is an indicator for his assertion.
Bellido: “This motion is a distraction”
Guido Bellido, Pedro Castillo’s former prime minister, warned that in Congress they are “losing the compass of what they really” have to focus on. “We have to get the country to stabilize,” he commented in his speech.
The statements of Evo Morales to name him “persona non grata” are debated in plenary
64 votes were needed for the agenda motion 5225 to be debated, which includes declaring former President Evo Morales “persona non grata.” Seventy-five legislators voted in favor. Now they debate.
Minister Gervasi will be summoned to Congress for the behavior of the Foreign Ministry
Passed. The Plenary voted in favor of the motion to question the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Gervasi. Pending the confirmation letter and the date of attendance, the chancellor must appear at the Parliament headquarters to answer a list of questions regarding the diplomatic behavior of her office.
Support of Silvana Araujo on the motion to question the chancellor, Ana Gervasi
The Perulibrista Silvana Araujo described as “nonsense” that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Gervasi, has expelled the Mexican ambassador to Peru, Pablo Monroy Conesa, from the country due to the “non-interventionist” attitudes of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He also said that “the rejection of the international community is increasingly widespread” in relation to the comments of the heads of state at the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Flor Pablo: “Let’s evaluate, please, the advancement of elections to 2023”
Non-grouped parliamentarian Flor Pablo met yesterday, January 25, with the National Assembly of Regional Governments, where they informed her that “gas supplies are running out.” “We are facing a situation of food crisis that is going to come of force due to the drought,” she added.
He also lamented that among the congressmen they do not “put aside their interests.”
José Bernardo Pazo, accessory of the Wilmar Elera vacado, is sworn in as congressman
Official. Once Wilmar Elera was released, still a fugitive from justice, his assistant José Bernardo Pazo had to replace his seat.
In the current plenary session, President Williams Zapata accompanied Pazo’s swearing in, handing him his parliamentary credential.
This January 26, the final report of the deaths that occurred during the civil protests that began on March 28, 2022 will be presented.
The multi-party investigative commission headed by Alejandro Muñante (Popular Renewal), in charge of postulating hypothetical political, criminal and administrative responsibilities for the 8 deaths that occurred in the context of social protest in March 2022, will present its final report to the Plenary.
At that time, various organizations of cargo carriers coordinated a strike in Ancash, Ayacucho, Junín and Piura to demand the increase in fuel.
Letter from José Cevasco to legislators. Photo: @Congresoperu/Twitter
On the agenda of this first ordinary legislature there are several documents pending voting. For example, two interpellation motions are listed: one to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Gervasi Diazand another to the former head of the Interior Victor Rojas. If approved, this second profile must respond “on the call to the population to participate in the so-called ‘National March for Peace’.”
In the same way, it will be paid for Bills of Law 465, 509 and 530, proposed to modify articles 179 and 180 of the Political Constitution and that refer to the “election of one of the members of the National Jury of Elections (JNE) by the country’s bar associations”. The initiative is from Peru Libre and Renovación Popular, and is indicated as “urgent” by the Executive Branch, which presides Dina Boluarte.
It will be left to the decision of the Board of Spokespersons to include in the day the motion for vacancy and interpellation of the current Minister of the Interior, Vincent Romerodue to the excessive intervention in the university city of the National University of San Marcosand the bill to advance the general elections to 2023, proposed by Cambio Democrático.
