Project to advance general elections was withdrawn, according to Waldemar Cerrón

The spokesman for Peru Libre, Waldemar Cerronindicated this Friday, April 29, that they have proceeded to withdraw the constitutional reform project What was he saying? modify the term of the president and congressmen of the Republicpresented by his bench colleague Passion Davila with the support of seven pro-government legislators. This initiative promoted new electoral elections for next March 23, 2023.

“Initially, the project was presented by Dávila and some of us signed it for evaluation, but this was withdrawn last night,” said Cerrón Rojas in statements to RPP.

According to the Congress website, the parliamentary initiative No. 01893/2021-CR had the support of the spokesman for Peru Libre himself, Waldemar Cerronas well as the official Second Montalvo, Paul Gutierrez, Flavio Cruz, Silvana Robles Araujo, Maria Aguero Gutierrez and Margot Palacios.

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Those mentioned agreed with modify the term of office of the president, vice presidents and congressmen. They specified that “Pedro Castillo’s management had to end on July 28, 2023 and the activities of the current congressmen would end two days earlier, that is, on July 26.”

They mention “that the president will have a period of 48 hours, from the time the rule is approved, to call new general elections, which would be held at the end of March 2023.”

“The general elections to elect the president, vice president of the Republic, congressmen and the Peruvian representatives before the Andean Parliament, are called by the president of the Republic within 48 hours of the entry into force of this article and are held on the last Sunday of March 2023″, indicates the text.

Congressmen from Peru Libre in favor of an early general election in 2023.