This afternoon, the Constitutional Commission of the Congress sent to the file the bill presented by the Executive Branch that proposed holding complementary elections next October as a way out of the crisis.
The decision was made just after the Minister of Justice, José Tello, and the heads of the electoral bodies will appear before the working group, which he chairs Hernando Guerra Garcia.
Tello was in charge of supporting the project while the president of the National Elections Board, Jorge Luis Salas Arenas; the head of ONPE, Piero Corvetto, and the head of Reniec, Carmen Velarde, formulated their proposals for the adoption of some measures that guarantee the suitability of the eventual elections.
Concluded his interventions, the head of the commission ordered the start of the debate. However, congressman Ilich López, from Acción Popular, presented a preliminary question under Article 78 of the Internal Regulations of Congress, which establishes that since a bill has been rejected and its archive ordered, “the same bill cannot be presented or another to deal with the same matter until the next annual session, unless agreed by half plus one of the legal number of congressmen”.
Under this premise, López insisted that the debate on the Executive project be postponed until the next legislature that begins at the end of next July.
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For his part, congressman Alejandro Cavero of Avanza País argued that the regulation must be respected and was convinced that the Executive’s project would generate much less consensus than the proposals that were debated in the plenary session of Congress in recent days. .
Likewise, he demanded that the provisions of the regulation be complied with, which indicates that this postponement of the discussion can be revoked with the agreement of half plus one of the legal number of congressmen.
Guerra García reported in this context that the legal number that would allow the debate on the proposal to continue was 14 congressmen who were not finally reached, so the analysis and debate of the Executive’s project cannot be carried out until the next legislature that begins on July 27th.
