The Congress men Passion Davila from Free Peru Y dignified street from We can Peru presented two bills that seek to shorten the presidential and congressional term of officein order to summon a early general election. According to the initiatives, the term of the presidential function would end on July 28, 2023 and that of Congress would end on July 26 of the same year.
“The President and Vice President of the Republic elected in the 2021 General Elections conclude their mandate on July 28, 2023. The congressmen of the Republic and the Peruvian representatives before the Andean Parliament, elected in the same electoral process, culminate their representation on July 26, 2023″, can be read in the document.
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Likewise, the president will have a term of 48 hours from the approval of the norm to call new general elections to be held at the end of March 2023.
“The general elections to elect the president, vice president of the Republic, congressmen and the Peruvian representatives before the Andean Parliament, are called by the President of the Republic within 48 hours of entry into force of this article and they take place on the last Sunday of March 2023″, continues the text.
Plenary was suspended after insults between Guillermo Bermejo and congressmen
This afternoon, the head of the Board of Directors of Congress, Maria del Carmen Alva, suspended for 15 minutes the plenary session of Parliament as a result of the interdicts between legislator Guillermo Bermejo and members of other groups.
Bermejo had described retired Vice Admiral Luis Giampietri as “unhappy” after he accused him of having tried to assassinate him. Subsequently, legislator Patricia Chirinos called the legislator of Democratic Peru a “terrorist.”
Given this, the head of Congress decided to stop the meeting. “We are going to suspend the session for 15 minutes due to the situation. I think they have to calm down. The session is suspended for 15 minutes. We have not come here to insult anyone, ”she asserted.