Early elections: Who are the congressmen who sought to block reconsideration?
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- 31 Jan 2023
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The majority of Acción Popular joined the left-wing caucuses, including Peru Libre, and Renovación Popular, by voting against re-evaluating going to the elections in 2023.
The vote of the president of Congress, José Williams Zapata (Avanza País), allowed the plenary to reach the 66 votes required to approve the request made by parliamentarian Arturo Alegría (Popular Force) to reconsider the decision of the chamber at dawn on the last Saturday, when the call for general elections for October 2023 and the change of command for January 1, 2024 were dismissed.
After the vote, the president of the Parliament's Constitution Commission, Hernando Guerra García (Popular Force), asked for an intermission room to meet, separately, with each of the benches and listen to their proposals to present a substitute text that can generate greater consensus.
This after the last attempt to go to the elections in nine months only obtained the support of 45 congressmen. As it is a constitutional reform, they need 87 supporters.
The reconsideration was supported by Fuerza Popular, Alianza para el Progreso, Avanza País, Together for Peru and the majority of Podemos Peru. It also had the support of three Popular Action congressmen, two from Somos Perú, one from the Bloque Magisterial, one from Perú Bicentenario and nine not grouped [see box].
The Avanza País bench changed its position in the last hours. Yesterday, congressman Alejandro Cavero had advanced that they were going to score against .
However, this Monday, during the debate, the spokesperson for the train bench, Adriana Tudela, stated that her group was always clear that in the face of an eventual dismissal of former president Pedro Castillo and a government of Dina Boluarte, "this was going to have to be of a transitory nature" and that "we were not going to have to go to an early election process." Read More…
