Lawyer Miguel Pérez Arroyo, who was the legal defense of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, he withdrew his candidacy for the public tender to be a magistrate before him constitutional Court (TC), process in charge of Congress. In a letter addressed to José Balcazar, who chairs the commission in charge of selecting the next constitutional judges, he announced his decline and denounced that the aforementioned working group it acts with “legal detachment and arbitrariness”.
“That I be considered desisted from the application process before the Constitutional Court – renouncing it -, while I do not find that the commission is acting under parameters of legal predictability and in accordance with due procedure”, alleged the lawyer.
In this regard, he pointed out that his application has been “Ex officio excluded” by the technical commission due to information that he did not record at the beginning of the public tender, which was about an arrest he suffered in 2019 by Interpol, which was declared inadmissible.
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Despite the fact that the commission declared him “documentary suitable” after presenting said record “voluntarily”, the working group called him “inappropriate.”
“If this is the case, then it is arbitrary and only governed by the rules of politics – which are not necessarily fair or correct – which now lead to, as the media express it, an ex officio exclusion. Which I understand as arbitrary and illegal, ”he stated in the letter.
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Congressional Special Commission will elect new constitutional judges
The Special Commission of the Public Competition for the constitutional Court (TC) will elect the new members of the highest interpretive body of the Magna Carta in replacement of Marianella Ledezma, Manuel Miranda, Ernesto Blume, José Luis Sardón and Eloy Espinoza Saldaña, in addition to filling the space left empty by Magistrate Carlos Ramos.
According to the schedule, on March 21, 2022, the publication of the table of merits will be presented, which includes the note of each of the stages. The report to the owner of the Congress It will be presented on March 23, 2022.
