The Congress Board agreed by majority to flatly reject the motion of confidence presented by
during a Parliament plenary session held on November 17.
"The Board has agreed —by majority— to flatly reject the motion of confidence presented by the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Council of Ministers, because it referred to prohibited topics for the presentation of such motion, as established by the Constitutional Court in legal ground 185 of the judgement in file No. 006-2019-CC and Law No. 31355," Williams Zapata stated.
Moreover, the Legislative Branch head exhorted the Council of Ministers to scrupulously respect the constitutional and legal parameters for the presentation of the confidence motion.
The chief of the Ministerial Cabinet presented a confidence motion for the approval of the bill that restores the people's political participation and seeks to repeal Law No. 31399 approved by Congress, which prevents citizen initiatives from calling a referendum.
According to Williams Zapata, the Prime Minister's proposal exceeds the constitutional and legal limits as it ignores the powers of Congress as head of the fiduciary relationship between the Executive and Legislative Branches.
Consequently, it represents a serious change to the constitutional rule of law and the separation of powers.
"In addition, Law No. 31399 refers to two exclusive powers of Congress, such as: the approval in first vote of a constitutional reform and the provision for the President of the Republic to call a referendum for the approval of constitutional reforms," he said.
In this regard, the Congress chair affirmed that Bill 3570, which is the reason why the Executive Branch submitted a motion of confidence, interferes directly with the exclusive powers of Congress and clashes with Article 206 of the Constitution.
Likewise, he underscored that the confidence motion does not refer to a general government policy, noting that its foundations are the same as those used by the Executive Branch for the unconstitutionality claim it filed against Law No. 31399, whose final and decisive ruling is pending.
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