translated from Spanish: Peru’s president seeks to cut his term of office and congressmen to hold new general elections

Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra attended the Congress, where he offered to advance the elections of the neighboring country by July 2020, thus cutting short in a his own mandate and that of the legislators. The proposal is part of a plan to overcome the “institutional crisis” that is lived from the struggles between the Executive and the Legislative.In the Vizcarra instance indicated that “I present to Congress a constitutional reform of advancement of general elections , which involves the cut-out of the congressional mandate as of 28 July 2020. Similarly, this reform also calls for the same presidential term to be cut to the same date,” Vizcarra said during its annual message to the country on the 198th anniversary of Peruvian Independence. The President also added that “Peru is crying out for a new beginning, Peruvians must be able to choose their destiny to make way for bicentennial Peru. This action will strengthen the foundations of the republic, even if it means that we all have to leave.” It should be remembered that Vizcarra became president of Peru after the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2018 on corruption charges.

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