:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/IYSJAUSASBBPLA3JM5VTXJ3GDI.jpeg "The Purple Party announces that it will promote a referendum on the advancement of the elections")
Despite the fact that there are more than ten projects of early elections and that it is a citizen demand, the members of Congress did not reach a consensus to approve the measure. Negotiations between banks having failed, other solutions to the crisis have been proposed. Since purple party The launch of a process aimed at calling a referendum on the early holding of elections was mentioned.
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These organizations have benches in Congress. Perú Libre and Fuerza Popular, respectively, are the groups that receive the most funding.
“Today (Tuesday 21), 37 regional movements, together with the Purple Party, will announce the start of a process to ask for a referendum on a single issue and that is that there be early elections,” said the president of the association, Luis Duran Red. The decision comes after the meeting they had with the president To Boluarte in which he assured them that he would not resign.
Durán told the press that the head of state stressed that it was not a transitional government and that it was up to Congress to set the date for new electoral elections. Thus, according to the political leader, the referendum proposal to be presented must be addressed by the national representation. The question of a Constituent Assembly would not be included in this consultation.
The Purple Party rules out any attempt to gain prominence amid the crisis. “When the Purple Party came out to demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, we said something else, that none of the three members of Congress elected by the Purple Party would be approved for a candidacy for the board of directors. We want let the process take place without pressure,” Durán said in a conversation with the media.
Among other demands heard in the protests against the government, the demand for a referendum that consults citizens whether or not they agree with the call for a Constituent Assembly is repeated. From the Congress, the Constitution and Regulations Commission consulted the Jury of the national elections if the development of this referendum was viable and he replied that it could not be carried out.
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Luis Durán, president of the political organization, added that the president had stressed that she would remain in office if Congress did not approve any advance in the general elections.
The electoral entity stressed that this approach is not one of the problems that Constitution for the use of this popular participation mechanism. This is linked to the approval or disapproval of standards and the process of decentralization. With regard to constitutional reforms, this mechanism is used only after the approval of a first draft by Parliament.
The official letter n° 000080-2023-P/JNE sent to the Constitution Commission indicates that it is the responsibility of the Congress to establish another procedure to carry out this type of popular consultation. However, so far, no project or initiative generating this type of change has been made visible.
Although the Popular Action bench is not used to voting as a bloc, this time it decided to confirm its position against advancing the elections. Congressman Luis Aragón, one of those who voted in favor of the measure in previous votes, indicated that this time he will respect the decision made by the parliamentary group. And this despite the fact that his region is the one where the demand for new elections is most heard.
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The Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs of ComexPerú points out that a solution to the current political and social crisis in the country is to establish a dialogue to collect the demands of the people, but that this does not necessarily translate into a change of the Constitution , but rather with better management of public management.
“My person, along with MP Hilda Portero, were the only two (to vote for). However, we had a bench meeting and there it is established: the bloc will vote against,” Aragón said. Together with Ilich López, they were responsible for confirming the decision adopted after a debate among all its members.