Overview
- The autógrafa of Law 32743 sent to the Executive omitted the signatures of the Chamber of Deputies leadership and used wording that attributed the law to the Senate only.
- Congress president Miguel Torres acknowledged the heading error and ordered a fe de erratas to correct the document’s reference to the ‘Congress’ instead of the ‘Senate’.
- Chamber of Deputies president Óscar Reto formally demanded the autógrafa be amended to include the deputies’ signatures and cited Articles 90 and 102 of the Constitution to argue the law belongs to the full Congress.
- Constitutional experts and some legislators say a fe de erratas is a clerical fix that cannot repair a substantive procedural defect and are calling for a rectifying law and possible political sanctions against leadership.
- If the defect is not formally corrected by law, legal challenges could target the constitutionality of Law 32743 and any executive decrees issued under its delegated powers for citizen security and El Niño response.