The Congress of Peru rejected this Wednesday a bill that contemplated general elections in 2023in the midst of a wave of protests against President Dina Boluarte and parliamentarians that has left 48 dead in seven weeks.
After a five-hour debate, the plenary session rejected the second proposal to anticipate the elections with 54 votes in favor, 68 against and 2 abstentions. 87 votes were needed to approve the legislative initiative that proposed holding elections in December of this year.
“Gentlemen in Congress, the constitutional reform project has not reached the number of votes provided for its approval in article 206 of the Constitution,” said the head of Parliament, José Williams.
Left-wing congressmen applauded the rejection of a bill Presented by the Fuerza Popular Fujimori right-wing party, which also has the support of President Boluarte.
The rejected bill contemplated anticipating the general elections for December 2023 and that the new authorities would take office in May 2024.
“The purpose of this proposal is only one, we have advanced this issue because our country is bleeding”, warned the Fujimori parliamentarian Hernando Guerra García of Fuerza Popular (right) at the beginning of the plenary session.
Boluarte had called on Congress on Sunday to approve the early elections in the face of the social crisis that is shaking the country. Otherwise, he will promote constitutional reforms so that these elections are imposed, he assured.
This was the third time since the crisis began on December 7 in Peru that Congress has refused to advance the elections to 2023., while the main demand in the protests in the streets is that the president and congressmen be re-elected. “Let them all go”, read on banners.
“This is the total divorce between the political class and the citizenry,” Alonso Cárdenas, professor of Political Science at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University (UARM) told AFP.
Congress tried since Friday to debate the advance of elections, divided by the interest of the left-wing groups in conditioning their vote in exchange for a referendum to form a Constituent Assembly. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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