Peru’s Prime Minister, Anibal Torres, announced Thursday that he will present a new request to reform the rule that regulates the motion of confidence in Parliament, despite the fact that the head of the House, Jose Williams, rejected a previous instance considering it as «not attainable».
The initiative of the head of Government seeks that the Legislative enters to debate a project promoted by the Executive for the repeal of the regulation on the confidence motion, mechanism of which the opposition has made use in innumerable occasions since the inauguration of the President of the country, Pedro Castillo, back in July 2021.
«For the sake of respect for the Constitutional Rule of Law, democratic institutionality and the separation of powers, any decision regarding a question of confidence only proceeds once it has been presented and sustained before the plenary of Congress,» reads the document sent by Torres to Williams.
The president of the Parliament has previously responded to this request of Torres calling it «unacceptable» and accusing the Government of trying to «provoke» and trying to close the seat of the Legislative Power, according to the Peruvian radio station RPP.
«I believe that the Executive intends to confront the Congress, and that the Executive intends to close the Congress of the Republic (…) To revise this law, which is constitutional, would rather break the balance of powers», said Williams in this regard.
