Peru’s Prime Minister, Anibal Torres, has proposed this Thursday a motion of confidence to the Congress of the Republic in order to approve a bill that establishes a reform in the process of approval of constitutional reforms.
Torres’ proposal aims at certifying the «power of the people as a constituent power» when it comes to actively participate in issues «of major relevance» and thus avoid that the political power «is placed above the sovereign power».
The head of Government has emphasized that his request goes through the reform of an ordinary law, although he has remarked that in the case of a constitutional norm, it does not mean that it could not be repealed, according to RPP radio station.
The Peruvian Constitution provides that, in the event that the Congress of the Republic rejects a question of confidence, the ministerial team must be recomposed. If the chamber rejects a second question of confidence, Parliament may be dissolved and elections may be called.
At this point, some parliamentary benches have accused Torres of putting the opposition in the dilemma of approving his question of confidence or, on the contrary, to face a possible «closing of the Congress» leading to new elections.
«If the Executive had wanted to close the Congress (…) We would have presented two or more bills raising two or more questions of confidence regarding these», Torres has remarked, who has reminded the opposition that they have presented «interpellations and (motions of) censure in a successive and simultaneous manner».
