plenary session of congress Peru Rejected this Friday to hold general elections ahead of time in the country For the next October, after debating for more than 8 hours a project proposed in this sense by the President of the Constitutional Commission, Fujimori Hernando Guerra García. offer 45 votes in favor, 65 against and two againstHowever, after the result was agreed upon, the Speaker of the Congress, Jose Williams, pointed out that a request for reconsideration had been raised, which would be debated next Monday, when they would again have to vote on the motion. Being a constitutional reform, the project had to receive the favorable votes of 87 MPs in two consecutive assemblies in order to be approved.
Plenary session approves motion to reconsider advance date for general elections in the country for this year, which was proposed by Constitutional Commission President Hernando Guerra García to Fujimori instead of April 2024 as initially planned. The decision was made with 78 votes in favor, 34 against and 7 voting after intense debate between the various groups that lasted for more than four hours.
Guerra Garcia made a surprising request on Thursday to reconsider the vote first approved on December 20 to hold early general elections in April 2024. After the acceptance of his request, the president of Congress, José Williams, immediately began debate on the final new date for the election, which Guerra García proposed to be held the following October.
The project submitted by the Chairman of the Constitution Commission states that on that date A new Speaker and two Deputy Speakers are elected in addition to 130 Congressmen and 5 Representatives of the Parliament. Andino, with a possible presidential runoff in early December.
“It is a necessity for our country. Now it is up to us to vote in this regard,” he said, before assuring that he wanted to provide relief to his country “and to the citizens who are listening to us”. Huh. Since last December, 64 people have been killed in the context of anti-government protests.
As it is a constitutional reform, this type of voting must have a favorable vote of 87 MPs in two consecutive assemblies. For this reason, if the new project is approved, it must be voted on again by the plenary meeting in the next Legislature, which the Constitutional Commission has proposed starting on 15 February.
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At the start of this Friday’s debate, the plenary session rejected a separately submitted request by the ultra-conservative Renovación Popular party and the radical left bank, Bloc Magisterial, for a reconsideration of the election date to be declared “unacceptable”. Once that request was rejected, Guerra García called on parliamentarians to “consider the very serious situation” facing his country and remarked that modification of early elections “is a decision Policy,,
Left-wing lawmakers such as Flávio Cruz assured that the “solution” to the progress of the elections lay with President Dina Boluarte, whom they asked resign So that, as established by the Constitution, general elections are called forthwith in the country. Boluaarte this Friday urged Congress to approve an electoral advance to 2023, as a way out of the crisis and in response to one of the main demands of the anti-government protests, which also calls for his resignation Shutdown of Congress and calling of Constituent Assembly.
To date, according to figures from the Office of the Ombudsman, 46 people participated in the protest To die A policeman died after being burnt alive by protesters, while in clashes with security forces. These victims add to 11 deaths in incidents related to roadblocks confirmed by police and one in the northern region of La Libertad. Similarly, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Annur) reported the deaths of four Haitians, in addition to an unborn child confirmed by UNICEF, who could not receive medical assistance due to roadblocks, resulting in 64 deaths. . 11 December.
