One more week to begin processing the requests for amnesties and pardons in the National Assembly

As of January 12, all applications that have complete documentation will be known, out of a total of 371 that have been submitted

The Commission on Constitutional Guarantees determined that next January 12 it will address all those requests for amnesty and pardons that have the complete files of a total of 371 requests that entered the National Assembly.

The assembly members of the table, with eight votes in favor, approved the roadmap for the processing of amnesty requests, which implies a period of up to two months to present the report.

The National Assembly is pending to hear more than 300 requests for amnesties

Those requests for amnesties that do not have the complete documentation will have at least two more weeks to put together the corresponding folders and the commission will know them on January 26.

The board resolved to forward all the information sent by the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) to the assembly members of the commission, including a technical sheet for individual analysis.

Additionally, it was resolved to request the State Attorney General’s Office for information on the status of the legal cases of the amnesty applicants, even the table warns that it is referred under reservation if the case is, by reason of article 9 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Branch.

The roadmap does not have a calendar of dates, it only establishes the parameters on which the commission will be directed, such as filling in the files individually in joint work with the advisers of the assembly members.

A general review of the individual files, know the resolutions of pardons and amnesties, prepare a report that unifies the requests for amnesties and pardons, and presentation of the report to the Commission on Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights and Interculturality. (I)

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