Peru Libre, APP, Renovación Popular and Somos Perú defend the election of members of the TC

Updated on 05/13/2022 05:12 pm

The spokespersons of four congressional benches spoke out in defense of the process through which six new magistrates of the Congress were elected. constitutional Court (TC) through votes in plenary.

Waldemar Cerrón, spokesman for Peru Libre, supported the process as well as the work of the special commission that evaluated and determined who were the six candidates suitable to replace the six magistrates whose mandate had expired in the TC:

“If it had been the opposite vote in all the benches they would have asked that Congress stop their attacks between one and the other for the good of Peru. Today we have a sample of democracy, a sample that it is possible to get ahead”commented before the press.

Spokesmen from four benches defended the election of members of the TC. (PRP)

“They begin to say that there are negotiations under the table, that ‘fujicerronismo’, ‘porkycerronismo’. I think that those adjectives should go down in history and should not be spoken in that way for the good of the country “he added.

Eduardo Salhuana, APP spokesman, stressed that there was no previous debate in the plenary before the voting because an agreement was made backed by spokesmen from eight of the nine benches of the Legislative Power.

“The debate would have prevented us from choosing the members of the TC as we wanted. Perhaps a broad debate would have been good, but perhaps it could also have led to the impossibility of electing the members of the TC and we would be regretting that a TC with an expired period is still in force”, he asserted.

Jorge Montoya, from Popular Renewal; and Wilmar Elera, from Somos Perú, were also present at the press conference to support the election of members of the TC.

“Three members (of the TC) want to be screwed in their chair and are going to the Inter-American Court to ask for help. I consider that this is not a democratic gesture, it is a gesture on the contrary of other characteristics and this generates damage to the democracy”Montoya noted.