The president of the Congress, Maria del Carmen Alvawas pronounced this Friday after the president’s announcement peter castle of the presentation of a bill to the Legislature to consult the population on the change of the constitution during the 2022 Regional and Municipal Elections.
Through a message on her Twitter account, the owner of the Board of Parliament expressed his rejection of the installation of a Constituent Assembly in the country, referring to what was expressed by President Pedro Castillo during his speech at the Decentralized Council of Ministers in Cusco.
As he specified, the president has forgotten that the country’s priority is the fight against citizen insecurity, unemployment and corruption. Along these lines, he said that “there is not a single opinion poll where the constituent Assembly be a priority for Peruvians.”
President’s announcement and response from Congress
The president of the Republic, peter castleannounced from Cusco that the Government will send a bill to Congress to carry out a popular consultation on whether it agrees with a new Constitution.
The president proposed that the consultation take place during the Regional and Municipal Elections next October 2, by means of an additional certificate. Castillo mentioned that Congress has in its hands the power to convene a popular consultation, for which he said that he urged the Legislature to schedule the country’s problems and needs.
In this regard, the head of the Constitution Commission of Congress, Patricia Juareztold RPP Noticias that the president’s initiative has “overtones of unconstitutionality” and that it only generates false expectations for citizens.
“The project is openly unconstitutional, there is no such way as the president intends to present it to the Congress to amend the Constitution. Again, it intends to generate a citizen expectation that does not correspond to our constitutional channels,” the legislator told RPP News Connection.