Peru’s Vice President, Dina Boluarte, has asked the president of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC) of the country’s Congress, Lady Camones, to set aside Congresswoman Norma Yarrow in the vote on the final report of a constitutional complaint against her.
The also Minister of Social Development and Social Inclusion referred to the regulations of the Peruvian Parliament that establish that the congressmen who are members of said sub-commission are prevented from filing constitutional accusations, as Yarrow (member of Avanza País) has done, as reported by RPP radio station.
«It is the case that Mrs. Norma Yarrow, current member of the subcommittee, was the congresswoman who presented the constitutional complaint that is the subject of the proceedings,» Boluarte warned in a letter addressed to Camones, recalling that «the quality of member of the subcommittee» disqualifies her from voting on a complaint presented by herself.
In this line, the ‘number two’ of the Peruvian Government has questioned that Yarrow «is judge and party of the constitutional accusation procedure».
Boluarte has warned, however, that in the event that such request is denied, she will appeal to «the competent bodies of the constitutional jurisdiction» to carry out a review of the decision as improper.
According to Congresswoman Yarrow, the vice-president would have violated articles 38 and 126 of the Constitution and would have committed crimes of omission, refusal or delay of functional acts, as well as prevarication during her time as head of the board of directors of the Apurimac Departmental Club.
