On Tuesday, May 10, the new members of the Constitutional Court without debate and without transparency, Therefore, the parliamentarians who opposed said election could not intervene, and the press could not be aware of the vote, except for the signal from the Congress channel.
This situation showed that there were an average of 13 congressmen from Peru Libre who voted against the provisions, which reveals a division in the first minority of the Congress of the Republic, leading 10 of them to resign.
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Find out who are the parliamentarians who decided to leave the party founded and led by Vladimir Cerrón. Also, find out about the possible intentions of the resignations to form a new bench.
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Which congressmen resigned from Peru Libre?
The parliamentarians who made the decision to move away from the Free Peru caucus in order to form a new parliamentary bloc are:
- Alex Walls
- Passion Davila
- Francis Paredes
- Elizabeth Hermosilla
- Second Quiroz
- Paul Gutierrez
- edgar tello
- German Tacuri
- Katy Ugarte
- Lucinda Vasquez
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What bench will integrate those who resigned from Peru Libre?
Essentially, those who moved away from the pencil bench are the congressmen who form the so-called “teacher block” and who would be very close to President Pedro Castillo, so they could form their own parliamentary group.
With this, Congress would have four leftist benches: Democratic Change (formerly Together for Peru), Democratic Peru (led by Guillermo Bermejo and made up of former premier Héctor Valer), Free Peru and the possible new teachers’ bench.
It should be noted that although the vote by members of the Constitutional Court represented the last straw for the resigning members, Katy Ugarte explained, in her letter to spokesperson Waldemar Cerrón, that the departure occurred because “the Peru Libre caucus has made some decisions without consultation” that he does not fully share and that “are not appropriate for the country at a time when we are going through a political and economic crisis that has been affecting the poorest in the country.”
