Peru approves elimination of parliamentary immunity: Corte Suprema juzgará to the congressmen in office

The plenary of the Congress of Peru will definitely approve this March elimination of parliamentary immunity, a prerogative that in the last few years has seen a large part of the city as an impunity mechanism for various legislators.

The end of this immunity is the response of 103 votes in favor, in front of 14 against and abstention, during the first session of the plenary of the Peruvian Congress this year.

This is the second vote to take advantage of this initiative, that a reform is amended which amends Article 93 of the Peruvian Constitution which is required to be adopted during the two separate sessions of the Legislative Sessions.

Between the votes cast against the elimination of parliamentary immunity hubo eens del partido fujimorista Fuerza Populêr, formation investigated together with his leader Keiko Fujimori for alleged money laundering in the former electoral campaigns of the ex-president Alberto Fujimori’s (1990-2000).

También also voted against other congressmen who conducted investigations into alleged corruption, such as the ex-controller Edgar Alarcón, and violations of human rights, such as the interim president Manuel Merino, accused of representing the mass demonstrations he committed transition in November passed.

CONGRESSES IN MATCHES

From the moment this constitutional amendment is published in the Official Journal, the common commits committed by the congressmen during the ownership of his mandate will be the competence of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru.

These commitments are made by the parliamentarians before the initiation of their labor legislation ordinary cargo of ordinary criminal justice.

This implies the elimination of the parliamentary commission of levitation of the administration, a group that in many cases has been blinded by the congressional dissenters in operation of the political alliances within the home.

NO AFECTA AN OTROS ALTOS FUNCIONARIOS

Under the terms of reference, the spokesman of the parliamentary group of the ultra-nationalist party Por peru (UPP), José Vega, lamento that in the reform not haya quitado also the administration to other functionaries as the President of the Republic and the Ministers, as was contemplated in July.

The elimination of parliamentary immunity was part of the reform in the political and judicial institutions that encouraged the former president Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020), which includes the fact that the podium will convene a referendum on this issue in advance of the concerns that most congressmen will have to lose this protection.

(With EFE information)

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