The Peruvian Congress agrees to bring forward the election date to April 2024

conspiracy Peru Bill agreed to pay elections Presidential as of April 2024After the proposal of the head of state Dina Bulwart on the occasion of the anti-government protests calling for the release of the former president. Pedro Castillo.

Recorded the plenary session of the House of Representatives 93 votes in favor, 30 against, and one abstention for the constitutional reform text Submitted by the Peruvian Constitutional Commission.

The approved text stipulates that “the current President of the Republic calls for general elections to be held in April 2024 and her term ends on July 28, 2024,” according to the document provided by the commission.

This reform must be approved – after it has passed the necessary 87 votes – in a second vote in the next regular legislature.scheduled for February 2023, RPP reports.

Peruvian lawmakers then reconsidered the vote The plenary session was suspended last Friday after general elections were refused progress until 2023.

Chief of state Dina Polorat announced the advancement of the election to April 2024 in response to the social protests Which take place in different parts of the country against your government.

The president said in a speech to the nation on Thursday: On the occasion of the violent demonstrations this weekend, which left more than twenty dead.