The congressman investigated for criminal organization Waldemar Cerron presented a proposal for constitutional reform to override the bodies of the justice system and force judges and prosecutors to send documented information to the future Parliament on the processes in progress. The initiative does not include a minimum of support. On the contrary, it includes paragraphs from another project of his, in what would be a self-plagiarism.
The initiative was presented on Friday, September 13, and is part of the future bicameral system, with the participation of senators and deputies.
Waldemar Cerron proposes to modify article 96 of the Constitution so that the new senators and deputies have higher power and can request extensive information from the different state institutions, including the bodies linked to the administration of justice.
“Any senator or deputy can request documented information (…) from any public or private entity, including judicial proceedings that are carried out in any of the procedural instances up to the Supreme Courtof the Constitutional Court; In a similar act, the actions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and confidential investigations in the National Police of Peru,” his project states verbatim.
The parliamentarian on duty, representing the Junín region, adds in his proposal that “the omission or reluctance to provide the requested information is sanctioned as a very serious offense.”
Later in the same project, Waldemar Cerron proposes to modify Article 22 of the Congress Regulations, which insists on the option of senators and deputies being able to access all types of information on ongoing processes and even proposes a period of ten working days for responses.
The project represents a new attempt to attack the justice system by Waldemar Cerrón, a legislator investigated for alleged criminal organization, in the case Los Dinámicos del Centro, together with his brother, the fugitive convicted of corruption, Vladimir Cerrón.
The initiative is supported by supporters of fugitive Vladimir Cerrón, such as María Agüero, Américo Gonza, Isaac Mita Alanoca, Kelly Portalatino and Flavio Cruz Mamani.
Self-plagiarism
Although his project affects other articles of the Magna Carta related to principles such as the autonomy of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Constitutional Court, or the independence of the judicial function, the left-wing legislator does not worry about developing modifications in these aspects.
The brief statement of reasons, just eleven pages long, also contains no support for its proposal.
The project also includes a proposal to modify another article of the Constitution (154), to shorten the period for the evaluation and ratification of judges and prosecutors to three years.
That is to say, it is a single project with two proposals for constitutional reform on extremely different issues.
But in the explanatory statement, Waldemar Cerron It only addresses the second proposal. That is, only Article 154, but says nothing about Article 96, despite the impact that such a reform would generate.
And something even worse: in support of the modification of article 154, the legislator takes entire paragraphs from another project of his presented on August 19, on modifications to the laws of the judicial and fiscal career. They are an average of five pages of self-plagiarism.
Waldemar Cerron He earns 26,600 soles. And in his office he has seven people who generate an average monthly expense of 47,000 soles. Such a waste, equivalent to 73,600 soles per month, is not reflected in the minimum capacities to formulate a good project.
