The Peruvian Congress, facing the last opportunity to bring forward this year’s presidential elections

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The Congress of Peru will have from this Monday one last week of opportunity to bring forward the election to this year, amid popular clamor on that street and a wave of protests that has already racked up 60 deaths.

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“Everything will depend on what the benches decide”, anticipated the president of Congress, José Williams the legislative periodwhich was due to conclude last Friday, has been extended until next to see other outstanding issues.

In that additional time, proposals can be made. And the general secretary of the center-right Alianza Para el Progreso (APP) party, Luis Valdez, anticipated that his 14 deputies will vote in favor of reconsidering the electoral question.

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“We see that it is possible, due to the sense of urgency, to agree that the issue of the advance is discussed again,” said the parliamentary spokesman of the former ruling party Peru Libre (PL), Flavio Cruz.

Several people participate in a new anti-government demonstration in Lima (Peru).  Photo EFE

Several people participate in a new anti-government demonstration in Lima (Peru). Photo EFE

pros and cons

If the signatures of APP and PL are added to those of Fuerza Popular (FP, right), Podemos Perú and Somos Perú (center-right) and Cambio Democrático and Perú Democrático (left), it is probable that 66 will be reached to revive the debate. Another center-right party, Popular Action, has also promised to study the situation.

66 signatures were collected last week, so everything was ready to review the matter, but at the last minute the bench of the ousted and imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo, Magistral Bloc, has withdrawn its 10 rubricsapparently because their main goal is the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

For analysts, however, it is clear that the fact that the debate has resumed this week it does not necessarily imply that the election will be held this yearbecause there are many opposing voices within lawmakers.

“Those who say yes and then no are hypocrites,” commented liberal analyst Rosa María Palacios on the several times in which MPs who ask for elections to take place as soon as possible end up denying their vote.

If the 2023 election is not passed next week, it will be impossible to do them this year, because it is necessary to validate them in two different legislatures. To organize everything and to meet deadlines, it would need to be approved in this legislature and ratified in the next one, which will start in March.

According to various surveys, More than 70% of Peruvians want elections as soon as possibleto get rid of an executive and legislative branch that is believed to have trapped the country.

The protests, which began after the dismissal of Castillo and his replacement with Boluarte, last December 7, and which cost the life of a forty-eighth civilian hit by bullets from the Armed Forces on Saturday, have as central points early snap elections and the resignation of the current president.

A view of the Congress of Peru.  Reuters photo

A view of the Congress of Peru. Reuters photo

This last point has to do not only with the repression and the incidents, which also resulted in the cremation of a policeman and the death of 11 people from collateral causes, but also because at this point Boluarte’s exit is the recipe direct for the opening of the polls in this 2023.

Source: Clarin

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