Marianella Ledesma: “The Constitutional Court is destroying our country”

Marianella Ledesmaformer president of Constitutional Court (TC)harshly criticized the resolutions issued by this body in favor of the Congress of the Republic for the election of a new ombudsman, the reform of the board of directors of Sunedu and other important cases involving a jurisdictional claim.

“He constitutional Court He is destroying our country. It is destroying the institutions of Peru, these six people should soon be identified with their names and surnames (grandstands) that are destroying it,” Ledesma said.

He asserted that it is not only the question of the Sunduby avoiding the control of the quality of education, but also the destruction of the tax collection system, by exonerating the large debtor companies from the payment of taxes.

“They destroyed or allowed the possibility that those convicted of corruption, terrorism or drug trafficking could stand for acts of popular elections and, if that is not enough, they now intend to put, by weakening the electoral system , a cause that not even the voter imagined. “, he added.

For Ledesma, the actions of the tribunes show that they maintain a “non-impartial” position, because they were chosen by this same Congress.

“There is a duo Congress-Constitutional Court destroy our country. And, for this reason, it is urgent that we reconsider the possibility of going to an assembly, conclave or constituent meeting to study the Constitution, it cannot continue like this,” he stressed.

Moreover, he specified that it is possible to use the verb “destruction” for the current tribunes, since it is not clear to him that “power is not exercised arbitrarily and is distributed in a logical of balances and counterweights”

“The work the powers that the Congress of the Republicfor example to choose a defender or to choose the members of the tribunal, must be given within a framework of guarantees. Who controls these guarantees?

He argued that, in the logic of rule of lawThe ones who control these guarantees should be the constitutional judges, but “what does the Court do now and, that’s why I say destroy the institutional framework, decide that no one can control Congress anymore”.

“They can’t control it anymore. constitutional judges and I imagine that when they publish their sentence, at least they will tell us if they will no longer be the judges of the Judicial authority Those who are going to control, who is going to do it? “, he said.

He added that “the fundamental rule” in a democratic exercise is balance, distribution of powers, balance and balance. “Who will now control the work of the Congress Sunedu or against defender’s choice. This is what makes this decision disastrous for the institutional framework of the country,” he reiterated.

In its last pronouncement, the Constitutional Court announced that it had decided, by a majority of five votes, to declare the jurisdictional appeal filed by the Congress of the Republic against the Judicial authorityConsequently, the resolutions issued in the context of the amparo process which prevented the process of appointing the defender of the people.