The constitutional reform bill which, by bringing forward the end of the current presidential and parliamentary terms, raised the possibility of calling new elections was not approved by most
members in the early hours of Saturday.
This initiative received 45 votes in favor, 65 against, and 2 abstentions.
It had required a qualified majority (87 votes in favor) to be approved at the first voting session.
Immediately, he announced that the plenary session would be adjourned until January 30 at 10:00 a.m. (local time).
In its final version, this initiative included two special transitory provisions.
According to the first one, President Dina Boluarte should call elections for October 2023 and her term should end on December 31 of the same year.
The new president-elect would begin his/her term in office on January 1, 2024, and it would end on July 28, 2029.
Regarding current Congress members and Peruvian representatives at the Andean Parliament, the text said their term would end on December 30, 2023.
Their successors would begin their term in office on December 31, ending on July 26, 2029.
The second special transitory provision said that Congress and the electoral system instances would craft the regulations to be applied to the elections.
This final version of the text was prepared during an intermission requested by Guerra-Garcia so as to incorporate the contributions that had been presented by various parliamentary groups during the debate.
However, once the Fujimori party representative had mentioned the scope of said proposal, several legislators expressed their disagreement.