However, the now prime minister is against it and points out that the Executive “does not contemplate” said call in its proposal in order to change the Constitution.
Contradiction? Alberto Otárolacurrent head of the Council of Ministers, was in favor of calling a referendum, as well as the installation of a constituent assembly and eventual approval to establish a new constitution in Peruas can be seen on his official Twitter account.
Indeed, a message from November 19, 2020 issued by the now prime minister has been disseminated on social networks. In it he assured that the current Political Constitution, formulated in the government of former dictator Alberto Fujimori in 1993, “it completed its cycle”.
Subsequently, he summarized the three proposals of the Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP), an organization in which he was a member until September 2021, according to the Registry of Political Organizations (ROP), in three steps: call a referendum, install a constituent assemblyand debate and approve a new constitution for the Bicentennial.
It should be remembered that the President Dina Boluarte assured that he would present to the Congress a bill for the total reform of the current Constitution. This was expressed during a message to the nation issued last January 29in the framework of the protests in the country that demand the early elections.
The president mentioned that This second proposal is intended to settle “once and for all the debate on the reform of the Constitution, an issue that is permanently used by some political forces to undermine any democratic solution to the current situation”.
“Specifically, I mean proposing that the next Congress entrust the Constitution Commission with the total reform of the 1993 Constitution. This project fits perfectly into the expectation of the other sector of Congress, which also wants to make political reforms through a Constituent Assembly,” he said.
Alberto Otárola: “The convocation of a constituent assembly is not contemplated”
Alberto Otárola ensured that the project proposed by Dina Boluarte to change the Constitution of 1993, through the Constitution Commission of a future Congress, “does not contemplate” the convocation of a constituent assembly.
“It does not contemplate, in any way, the convocation of a constituent assembly and this idea for several days continues to be debated, it has not yet been formally approved by the Council of Ministers because it is being fed back by all the State ministers,” he said. the press.
