Although Congress approved this Friday the possibility that a early elections can be reanalyzed by the Constitution Commissionit was necessary to extend the present legislature – until next February 28 – for this decision to take effect.
Rafael López Aliaga rejects early elections, despite the fact that a year ago he called for the resignation of Dina Boluarte
This afternoon, the mayor of Lima met with the President of the Republic to discuss the political crisis in the country
However, the head of Parliament, José Williams, adjourned the session without addressing the demand of congresswoman Flor Pablo (not grouped), who requested “urgently” the extension of the legislature and suspension of the week of representation, as well as Ruth Luque (Together for Peru) and Jaime Quito (Free Peru). “Most do not want to leave,” Pablo denounced after his invocation was unsuccessful.
With this scenario, the debate on the early elections it would resume as of March 1, after the president of the Constitution Commission, Hernando Guerra (Popular Force), convened the members of his working group to analyze other initiatives after the rejection of four others.
In the event that it obtains the green light, the opinion issued by the Constitution would only be confirmed in the subsequent legislature, starting in August, with which the chances of approving elections for this year are nil. In addition, an electoral process takes at least seven months to carry out, according to law.
“The only possibility for the elections to be held this year was for Congress to approve the project in March with 66 votes, plus a referendum in June and a first round in December,” reported the research portal Epicenter.
He early elections It is one of the main demands of the anti-government protests that began in various parts of the country two months ago and in which 70 people have died.
This is how the congressmen voted so that the advance of the elections can be seen again in this period
The request reached 69 votes. With this approval, the Constitution Commission must re-observe the issue in the current annual period of sessions, which concludes in July
However, the Legislature has not agreed to approve any of the legislative initiatives that included this advancement of general elections for 2023 or 2024, two of them proposed by the Executive and another two by parliamentary benches, including Fujimori.
“If the plenary session of Congress accepts it, the projects that arrive in the Constitution Commission will review them at the appropriate times,” said Williams, noting that this working group has to find sufficient arguments to propose one of the proposals to the plenary session. previous projects or a new one.
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The leader of Fuerza Popular assured that the advancement of the elections will be a way out of the political crisis that the country is going through.
The current legislature ended last Friday, but that same day Williams announced that would extend until this February 17.
Guerra accused the “radical right” this Friday of obstructing the possibility of debating the electoral advance again and recalled that, although the legislature concluded, the commission that he presides “could still meet.” However, he said that he received the copy of the reconsideration request signed by Jorge Montoya (Popular Renewal), which prevents them from “touching on this topic.”
“This is going to prevent us from being able to call (a meeting) for tomorrow… it is one thing to have different opinions and another thing to be obstructive,” he emphasized.
He maintained that now the members of his commission “the only thing” they can do “is hope that this can be voted on again” in plenary, on a date that has not yet been established.
Montoya presented his request for reconsideration shortly after the plenary session of Congress approved that an early election could be analyzed again by the Constitution Commission to, eventually, be evaluated in the current legislature by the plenary session of the Legislature.
“This issue made us uselessly lose seven plenary sessions,” said the legislator. Popular Action and Popular Renewal They were the stores with the most votes against reopening the debate on the early elections on this day: 10 and 9 of their legislators opted for this decision, respectively.
Popular Force and Free Peru, instead, they had the majority of votes in favor of reopening the debate, with 17 and 14 congressmen, respectively.
While, Alianza Para El Progreso, the Magisterial Bloc and the ungrouped legislators had 6 votes in favor, while Avanza País registered the majority of abstentions (3).
