:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/QMP2UJIHAJAATBPYHNUAVQFG2I.jpg "The Minister of Education responds on the progress of the elections: “It is not in the hands of the executive”")
The Minister of Education, Oscar Becerra noted today that the proposal for bring forward the general election December of this year does not depend on the Executive power but of the Congress of the Republic that to date no consensus has been found between the different parties to establish an electoral formula.
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The Podemos lawmaker resigned from the board after this year’s snap elections were not approved.
“It’s not up to us to bring it forward, it’s not up to us, but what’s available, we’ll respect it. We have to learn how to be a country that plays by the rules. We really like to change the rule if I don’t like it,” he said while overseeing the admissions process for the High Performance Schools (COAR).
Furthermore, the head of Minedu added that “at the moment, we have a constitutional mandate which effectively ends in the 2026. There is an initiative, several initiatives, from the President of the Republic herself for this to take place (the elections) ”.
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The bench led by Guillermo Bermejo and Betssy Chávez proposes that the elections take place next October. The new president and members of Congress would take office on January 1, 2024 and remain until July 2028.
As it is public, the President of Congress, Jose Williams reported last Friday that the legislature had been extended for the second time until February 17 so that there could be an agreement on bringing the elections forward.
It should be noted that three proposals to bring the elections forward to 2023 were rejected.
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The former President of the Republic stressed that it is about the immediate exit given the possibility that the Congress does not approve any advance for this year. He also spoke about his disqualification from holding public office and his handling of the pandemic.
The first came from people force who proposed that the elections be held in December of this year and, later, the members of Congress and the president of the republic, Dina Boluarte Zegarra, complete their respective assignments on April 29 and 30, 2024, respectively. However, the Plenary rejected it.
Then the second was developed by Free Peru which planned to hold the elections within the next 120 days. This was also intended to include consultation with citizens to convene a constituent Assembly, this in order to change the Constitution. There was no consensus either and it ended up being archived.
Finally, the Government general election proposals for the second week of October. Thus, on December 31 and 29, the presidential and congressional terms ended respectively. The Andean Parliament, meanwhile, would have continued its management until December 31, 2026.
The meeting took place in the presence of the head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Piero Corvetto, and the head of the National Election Jury (ETC), Jorge Luis Salas Arenas.
Despite this, the initiative received only eleven votes for, ten against and one abstention. In this case, fourteen votes were needed for its approval and subsequent debate in plenary.
Last week, the benches of Fuerza Popular, Peru Libre, Bloque Magisterial, Podemos Peru, Peru Democrático and Together for Peru insisted again with the debate on the proposal of the before the general elections. This group could also be added Alliance for Progress (APP) of Caesar Acuna.
On the other side are Avanza País, We are Peru and part of Acción Popular who does not want the elections to take place this year, but in April 2024 as established in December 2022. A position different from that of popular revival that he is against any reduction in the mandate of Congress.
People’s Renewal spokesperson Jorge Montoya claimed that there is no ongoing debate regarding the progress of the general elections, since this is a question tabled by the Plenary. The truth is that the population wants to have new elections to get out of the political crisis.
According to a survey of Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP)published by the newspaper The Republic73% of citizens answered that the renewal of powers Executive there Legislative This must be done in 2023.