After the exhortation of Fuerza Popular, the president of the Constitution Commission presented an appeal in order to annul the advance of elections for April 2024.
The president of the Commission of Constitution and Regulation of the Congressthe fujimorista Hernando Guerra Garciaraised a reconsideration of the vote with which the early elections in April 2024 were approved. The objective of the parliamentarian of people force is to roll back the process to present a substitute text that establishes that the cut of presidential and legislative mandate is given in December of this 2023. Minutes before, the party published a communiqué in which it demanded such a proposal.
“It was I, as president of this commission, who proposed in this chamber that the elections in June 2023 and we reached just forty-odd votes. Because (they said): ‘It should not be like that, it should not be like that.’ And In corridors they said: ‘No, not even 2024, 2026, President.’ If you want elections in 2023, President, I am currently proposing a reconsideration of the vote that was proposed for the 2024 elections. (….) I ask that a substitute text be made so that elections are held in 2023 and that stop the double standards and double speech”, Guerra García said in the plenary session on Thursday 26.
“They are going to tell me that it will not be possible to request a reconsideration. I, the president, ask you to take up this issue because it is a political issue, because the citizens want elections in 2023, and that is how we raised it from the beginning. Those who they want elections in 2023 to discuss it instead of getting nervous. President of Congress, call a Board of Spokespersons and we are going to elections in December 2023. Let’s stop hypocrisy, double standards and change of discourse, “he added.
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Reactions to Hernando Guerra’s announcement
Given the references of garcia war to the left benches, the congresswoman Sigrid Bazan He recalled that he proposed that the elections be brought forward before June 2023 and “he brought us another project by 2024, forcing us to vote when there was no other alternative.” “But it’s okay, if they want to discuss again by 2023, many of us here are willing to leave when the population tells us to leave. It will cost them the support of their friends at Renovación Popular and Avanza País.”
Indeed, Alejandro Caverofrom Avanza País, called Guerra García “irresponsible” and “double standards”: “He is not necessarily acting as president of the Constitution, but as a member of a political party with a particular specific political interest that I regret.”
Cavero Alva also accused the Constitution Commission of delaying the approval of constitutional reforms “that we should have started discussing a year and a half ago.”
“It seems to me a giant double standard, on the one hand, to say that they always wanted 2023, but, on the other hand, to say that the reforms must be approved. Here they are throwing the reforms away and they are sabotaging the only real possibility of approving reforms, saying as always that those who are sabotaging are those at the forefront (left-wing benches), that they do sabotage a lot, but here they are self-sabotaging,” he added.
In her turn, the parliamentarian Ruth Luque He assured that “if there is political responsibility”, the reconsideration should be debated.
Next, the Popular Renewal spokesperson, Jorge Montoyareiterated that he is against any advancement of elections and denied that a cut in mandate appeases social protests despite being one of the main demands raised in the demonstrations.
Williams adjourns session after filing reconsideration of early elections
The president of the Congress, Joseph Williamsassured that he did not know that Hernando Guerra García, president of the Constitution Commission, would raise a reconsideration on the advancement of elections. He affirmed that the proposal would be analyzed by the Board of Directors.
Likewise, after incidents between parliamentarians, Williams suspended the session until Friday the 27th at 9:30 p.m.
