Plenary session of Congress debates the budget bill for Fiscal Year 2023

UPDATE 15:15

After two hours of suspension, the plenary session of the Congress The debate on the draft Budget Law for Fiscal Year 2023 resumed this afternoon. This time, Foreign Minister César Landa Arroyo took the floor.

ORIGINAL NOTE

The head of the Council of Ministers, Betsy Chavez, together with his cabinet, will attend the Congress of the Republic today, Monday, November 28, in order to support the draft general budget of the Republic. At the end of her second speech, the premier said that “rumors” (a matter of trust) can be overcome with dialogue.

“I know that a rumor has been spreading for a few days and I believe that together we can overcome that rumor and we can work for all Peruvians,” said the Prime Minister in Parliament at the end of her second speech in the framework of the support of the fiscal budget 2023.

Chávez Chino also called for agreement and dialogue, assuring that with the “Budget Committee we can reach a heightened debate.”

On board their official vehicles, the ministers arrived at Congress and received their respective greetings. Asked by the press, the head of the Labor Ministry, Alejandro Salas, affirmed that both President Pedro Castillo and the cabinet support Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who was denounced for favoring the family of her partner, Abel Sotelo.

LOOK: Betssy Chávez follows Torres’ route and says she will seek trust “for the second time”

FIRST QUESTION OF TRUST

Aníbal Torres raised the question of confidence a week ago in order to repeal Law 31355, which regulates the interpretation of articles 132 and 133 of the Constitution, establishing the power of the premier to raise trust in cases of matters within the competence of the Executive, but not for constitutional reforms.

After Congress did not submit the request for debate considering it unconstitutional, Torres assured that “the Executive will understand this as a refusal of the question of confidence”.

Ratifying the intentions of his mentor and the president Pedro Castillowho described the fact as an “express refusal”, Chávez said yesterday that he will seek confidence “for the second time” before the Congress of the Republic.

LOOK: Betssy Chávez: “We do not intend a second question of confidence to close Parliament”

“We are going to ask for trust”

“We are going to ask for trust again. We made a record, which contains a supreme resolution accepting the resignation of Dr. Aníbal from the position of premier in merit of the minutes of the meeting of the Council of Ministers where we indicate for what constitutional legal grounds this constitutes a rejection of the confidence. If saying this is going to imply that they do not give me confidence, I cannot force Congress,” Chávez told TV Peru.

The minutes cited by Chávez state that they have already rejected a first cabinet, which is why the entire Torres cabinet resigned. He later contradicted himself by adding that “we have no intention of submitting a second confidence issue to shut down Congress.”

“A sector of Congress has decided to modify the procedure of the question of confidencewhich was a prerogative that the Executive had, just as the Legislature has the prerogative of interpellation and censorship,” said the Prime Minister.

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