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Early parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Peru on 26 January 2020. The elections were called after President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of the Republic on 30 September 2019.
The elections were convened by the president in the same decree with which the Congress was dissolved.
All 130 congressmen corresponding to the 26 electoral districts will be elected to office for the remainder of the 2016-2021 congressional period. It will be the seventh parliamentary election since the 1993 Constitution, which created the current Congress of the Republic of Peru.
Context
On 30 September 2019, the President of the Council of Ministers, Salvador del Solar, set forth a vote of confidence before the Congress for refusing to pass a bill that modified the election process of judges of the Constitutional Court. The vote of confidence sought to stop the election of magistrates, modify the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court and the designation of the tribunes. However, the Plenary Session of Congress decided to continue with the election of magistrates, and ignored the vote of confidence presented by Del Solar. President Martín Vizcarra considered this a no confidence vote, and proceeded with the dissolution of Congress and the call for new elections according to Article 134 of the Constitution.
Article 134: The President of the Republic is empowered to dissolve the Congress if it has censured or voted down two Councils of Ministers.
The decree of dissolution also called for new congressional elections to replace the existing congress. Under the law, elections are to be held within four months of the date of dissolution, without altering the pre-existing electoral system. The Congress cannot be dissolved in the last year of the congressional term, which would be 2021. Once the Congress is dissolved, the Permanent Congressional Committee still remains in operation, which cannot be dissolved.
Electoral schedule
The schedule of activities of the congressional elections of Peru of 2020:
| Electoral schedule | |
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| Call for elections | September 30, 2019 |
| Sending the list of the initial register by the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) to the JNE | October 7, 2019 |
| The period for party elections begins | October 11, 2019 |
| Last day to submit resignations to apply for another political organization | |
| Last day to register political alliances | October 31, 2019 |
| End of the period for party elections November 6, 2019 | November 6, 2019 |
| Approval of the electoral roll | November 16, 2019 |
| Approval of the electoral roll | |
| Deadline for submission of candidate list | |
| Closing of the Registry of political organizations | November 18, 2019 |
| Deadline for the publication of accepted lists | December 3, 2019 |
| Deadline for exclusion, resignation and withdrawal of candidates December | December 27, 2019 |
| 2020 Congressional election day | January 26, 2020 |
Electoral system
The 130 members of Congress are elected in 25 multi-member constituencies using open list proportional representation.
References
- "Juntos por el Perú y Nuevo Perú firman acuerdo sin el party de Vladimir Cerrón". elcomercio.pe. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ Peru’s political storm: a timeline of events Los Angeles Times, 4 October 2019
- Peru IFES
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