Keiko Fujimori’s speech in favor of bringing forward the general elections was for the rostrum: her bench delays the debate on this proposal for constitutional reform.
On September 6, congresswoman Digna Calle, from Podemos Peru, was able to support her bill for new elections, half after having presented it.
On September 13, legislator Susel Paredes, from Integrity and Development, did the same.
Both propose a way out, backed by a sector of the citizenry, to get out of this political crisis, in which the Executive and Legislative are involved.
The discussion of this constitutional reform is in the hands of the Constitution Commission of Congress, chaired by the Popular Force congressman Nano Guerra.
To date, this commission has not presented an opinion on the matter. And until that happens, Calle y Paredes’ proposals will be in limbo.
The Republic communicated with Guerra to ask him when his commission will present the aforementioned document. However, at the end of this note he did not respond.
Similarly, this newspaper consulted Congresswoman Paredes on this issue, but she said she had no knowledge.
The slowness of the War team proves that Fujimori Higuchi lied. On September 4, the leader of Fuerza Popular assured that the early elections would be a priority in the Constitution Commission. And that has not happened.
The FP congressmen have been more focused on convincing and urging their other colleagues to join the third vacancy motion, but not that there be new elections.
In the last legislature, when the Constitution Commission was chaired by the Fujimorista Patricia Juárez, they sent to the archives, in a hurry, the reform for a Constituent Assembly.
In November 2021, the then Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez supported before Juárez a project that regulates the vacancy and the matter of trust to prevent presidents from being abruptly removed and Congress from being dissolved.
More than a year has passed and that proposal does not have an opinion either.
This same group has approved a series of opinions according to their interests to regulate the issue of trust, suspend the primary elections in the 2022 elections, so that the Permanent Commission has interference in the election of the Indecopi board, limit the referendum on constitutional reforms and return to the bicamerality.
A recent case, in addition to the advancement of elections, is the project that reforms the pre-trial and political trial, presented by the Executive, on June 28, which until now continues to be filed.
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