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The Peruvian Congress approves advancing the elections to April 2024

MADRID, 21 Dic.

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The Peruvian Congress approves advancing the elections to April 2024

MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Peruvian Congress has approved a bill to advance the presidential elections to April 2024, following the proposal of the country's president, Dina Boluarte, on the occasion of the anti-government protests calling for the release of former president Pedro Castillo.

The plenary session of the Lower House has registered 93 votes in favor, 30 against and one abstention for the constitutional reform text presented by the Peruvian Constitution Commission.

The approved text states that "the President of the Republic, currently in office, calls for general elections, which will be held in April 2024. Her term ends on July 28, 2024," according to the document presented by the Commission.

This reform - having exceeded the 87 necessary votes - must be ratified in a second vote in the next ordinary legislature, scheduled for February 2023, reports RPP.

Peruvian legislators have reconsidered the vote after the plenary session was suspended last Friday after rejecting the advancement of general elections to 2023.

The country's president, Dina Boluarte, announced the advancement of elections to April 2024 in response to the social protests that are taking place in various areas of the country against her government.

"Interpreting in the broadest way the will of the citizenry, I have decided to take the initiative to reach an agreement with the Congress of the Republic to advance the General Elections to April 2024," declared the president in a speech to the nation on the occasion of the violent demonstrations this weekend that have left more than twenty dead.

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