Last Friday, January 21, Congress approved by majority the opinion that establishes that the Legislative Power It must approve any constitutional reform in the first instance before being submitted to a referendum. Faced with this decision, Venónika Mendoza, leader of New Peru, He attacked this law and showed his discontent with the position of Congress.
As explained by the former presidential candidate, the constituent assembly has been removed from the Peruvian people in an arbitrary manner. In addition, he assured that there is a dictatorship on the part of the parliamentarians that seeks to prevent this from happening. For her, the constituent assembly is imminent in Peru.
“The parliamentary dictatorship intends to take away from the sovereign people their constituent power. It is up to the Executive, democratic congressmen and social organizations to raise unconstitutionality before the TC. Sooner or later there will be a popular, joint and multinational constituent assembly in Peru,” Mendoza said via Twitter.
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The autograph of law had been observed by the Executive Power considering that violates constitutional principles by establishing mandatory transit through a constitutional reform procedure.” This law, which was approved with 72 votes in favor, 44 votes against and zero abstentions, also had the support of the president of the Board of Directors, Maria del Carmen Alva.
In this sense, any political movement or party —as is the case of Peru Libre— that seeks to approve an assembly to be able to modify the Peruvian Constitution will have to obtain the support of parliamentarians in order to opt for the citizen consultation (referendum).
