Overview
- The full Congress is debating three options: a commission-backed 90-day delegation narrowly limited to citizen security and El Niño measures, a Fuerza Popular minority draft proposing 120 days with about 50 extra items, and a Juntos por el Perú minority that urges outright rejection and archival of the request.
- Fuerza Popular’s minority text would extend the delegation to 120 days and adds measures across criminal, labor, tax and state modernization law, including a temporary and exceptional role for the Armed Forces in external prison security.
- Juntos por el Perú formally filed a minority motion to deny and archive the request, arguing the Executive’s submission lacks the constitutional level of specificity about which rules it seeks to change.
- Arturo Alegría, Fuerza Popular’s spokesperson, said the Pleno will first vote the consensus text and that lawmakers may take a recess to try to merge proposals, while President Keiko Fujimori has publicly pressed for urgent action.
- Granting facultades would let the Executive issue temporary laws without full congressional approval, a move that could speed security and disaster responses but raise questions about legal limits, legislative oversight and protection of civil rights.