Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced on Sunday that she would soon present two proposals: to hold presidential elections this year, rather than in 2024 as planned, and “total” constitutional reform.
Sunday, described the congressional session on Saturday as a “sterile debate that did not reach anything concrete,” except for the agreement to reconsider the proposal on Monday. Boluarte also expressed that she hoped that the proposal would be reconsidered “given the seriousness of the situation.”
Additionally, Boluarte said that if the Peruvian Congress does not reconsider the proposal to have general elections in 2023, she would present two bills. The first one would include provisions that cut the duration of her interim term and those of members of congress elected in the 2021 general elections, rescheduling general elections for the second Sunday of October.
The second bill would call for a session meant to begin a “total reform” of Peru’s constitution, which the nation’s next elected Congress would be tasked with overseeing. The resulting document from that session would be submitted to a vote via a referendum. “The second proposal is a bill that is intended to settle once and for all the debate on the reform of the Constitution, an issue that is permanently used by some political forces to undermine any democratic solution to the current situation,” Boluarte said. “Specifically, I am referring to proposing that the next elected Congress entrust the Constitution Commission with the total reform of the 1993 Constitution.
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