Congress would not give the green light to the president’s request peter castle to advance the date of the presentation of the fourth ministerial cabinet before the Plenary for February 28. Initially, the presentation was agreed for March 8, a date that was accepted by the President of the Council of Ministers, Hannibal Torres. However, last Thursday, the president requested to advance the appointment because “it limits certain things in the work plan.”
For the third vice president of the Legislative, Patricia Chirinos (Advance Country), the agenda “won’t move”. “There are no plans to change the date proposed by the Board of Directors and accepted by the premier. Everything remains the same (for March 8)”, confirmed to Peru21.
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This despite the fact that, hours before, both the vice president of Congress, Lady Camones (APP), like the second vice president, Enrique Wong (PP), indicated that it would be evaluated. “The work in Parliament’s committees is very strong; it has to do with the president (María del Carmen Alva)”, said the latter.
alva situation
In parallel, the Parliament’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations met yesterday and decided not to extend the agenda to deal with the constitutional complaints filed by Betssy Chávez (Democratic Peru) and Margot Palacios (Free Peru) against the head of Parliament, María del Carmen Alva (AP), and other legislators, for meeting in Miraflores to supposedly address the issue of the presidential vacancy.
Keep in mind
- Prior to Castillo’s request, Alva had pointed out to Prime Minister Aníbal Torres: “You have more than 20 days to reflect, to propose and see what we do together for our country; we wait for it”.
- At the time, Aníbal Torres accepted the proposed date: “We submit to that, it is the power of Congress”.
