The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Oscar Reto, requested that the Executive comply with the formality of attaching the minutes of the Council of Ministers in which the proposal was approved.
The Renovación Popular deputy assured that he will maintain his initiative and rejected that he seeks to criminalize the coverage of protests.
Deputy Marleny Arminta, from Ahora Nación, demanded that the Government take immediate measures to unblock the roads in the south of the country. The demand was made in the chamber of the House of Representatives following the presentation of the General Government Policy by Prime Minister Luis Galarreta.
The Ethics Committee of the Chamber of Deputies opened a preliminary investigation against Congressman Julián Pérez Mallqui, from Juntos por el Perú, for alleged physical and psychological aggression against his former partner. This was announced by the president of that working group, Henry Albañil, from the Civic Works Party, this Wednesday, August 19, during the first ordinary session of the committee.
In the Chamber of Deputies, Juntos por el Perú and the Civic Works Party were the caucuses that took the longest to appoint their representatives due to internal disputes. Meanwhile, the Senate completed all its board installations.
An incident between the benches of Ahora Nación and Fuerza Popular over the possession of an office in the Congress of the Republic, located on Av. Abancay, led to the intervention of agents of the National Police of Peru (PNP).
The elected deputy of Juntos por el Perú, Julián Luis Pérez Mallqui, was detained by police officers after allegedly committing a physical assault against a woman who has not yet been identified.
Senator Silvana Robles (Juntos por el Perú) vehemently denied having given her vote to Fujimorism in the election of Miguel Torres as president of the Senate, much less having committed “treason,” as denounced by the opposition coalition made up of the parties Juntos por el Perú, Ahora Nación, Obras, and the Partido del Buen Gobierno.
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