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Peru: President Castillo will attend Congress to deliver address on Mar 15

Photo: ANDINA/Presidency of the Republic

18:13 | Lima, Mar. 14.

The Board of Spokespersons of the Peruvian Congress has agreed to approve President Castillo's request to attend the Parliament's plenary session on Tuesday to deliver an address.

According to Congress Chairwoman Maria del Carmen Alva, the Head of State will be received at 5:00 p.m.

The spokespersons met this morning after Alva suspended a Congress' plenary session a few minutes after it began to address this issue as a priority theme.

On March 11, Prime Minister Anibal Torres asked Congress to receive the President of the Republic during a plenary session on March 15.

Torres reported that the presidential message to be presented during said Congress' plenary session was approved through an official letter during an ordinary Council of Ministers session on March 9.

The approval came within the framework of the provisions of Paragraph 7 of Article 118 of the Political Constitution of Peru.

The Constitution states that among the powers and obligations of the President of the Republic is to deliver an address to Congress at any time and compulsorily, in person and in writing, once the first annual ordinary legislature has been set up.

It added that "the annual messages contain a detailed statement of the situation of the Republic and the improvements and reforms that the President deems necessary and convenient for consideration by Congress."

"The messages of the President of the Republic, except for the first one of them, are approved by the Council of Ministers," it concluded.

(END) VVS/CVC/RMB

Publicado: 14/3/2022