Overview
- The official autograph of Law 32743 first published in El Peruano listed only the Senate and lacked the signature of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, creating a procedural error in the text.
- After a formal complaint from Chamber of Deputies president Óscar Reto, Senate president Miguel Torres acknowledged the material mistake and ordered a fe de erratas to correct the heading.
- The Congress published the errata on Sunday to reinstate the Congress as the source of the law and to show the autografa with the proper bicameral attribution.
- Constitutional scholars criticized the original mistake as a technical but serious breach of procedure and urged institutional accountability, with at least one expert saying the Justice Ministry’s legal adviser should answer for allowing the error.
- The episode highlights why bicameral signatures matter under Peru’s rules for passing laws and raises the chance of closer legal and political scrutiny of Law 32743, which gives the executive temporary powers to address security and the El Niño emergency.