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The president of the Republic, Martín Vizcarra, questioned the ruling of the Constitution Commission that raises only four crimes (terrorism, apology, rape and drug trafficking) as impediments to apply. The president especially criticized the fact that said text was produced when in the last Congress it had already been approved in the first vote that no person convicted of a malicious crime can be a candidate.
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In his virtual press conference this afternoon, the president recalled that in 2019 the Parliament had approved that no person sentenced for intentional crime can apply for any public office, so that only the ratification by the current Legislative was missing.
On July 24, 2019, the plenary of Congress approved the opinion of the constitutional reform on impediments to exercise the public function. However, since it was a constitutional reform, a second vote was required, which never happened.
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Article 34-A stated that they were prevented from running for popularly elected positions who have a conviction issued in the first instance for a willful crime.
“We cannot allow a citizen who is sentenced for a willful crime to be elected to public office. It was already approved in the first instance and now it is intended to reverse that situation and we hope that this does not happen ”, noted the president.
Martín Vizcarra He said he hoped that Congress would not allow this approach of the Constitution Commission to prosper. “We believe that Congress will act appropriately. In the Executive, we will be vigilant and pending “he exclaimed.
The Constitution Commission, chaired by Congressman Omar Chehade (Alliance for Progress), is debating a ruling today that establishes only four crimes as impediments to running for popularly elected positions: terrorism, apology for terrorism, illicit drug trafficking and rape.
This morning, the president of the Council of Ministers, Vicente Zeballos, spoke in the same line as the president.
“Whoever has already had the responsibility of assuming the administration of public resources, and already has a first sentence, can he be given the confidence to exercise the public function again with that background?”said the prime minister on Radio Nacional.
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