Overview
- The Constitution Committee resumed debate on Wednesday, September 30, over a 205-page predictamen that urges rejecting and archiving the executive’s request for 120 days of delegated legislative powers.
- The predictamen says many of the eight requested areas were drafted with excessive breadth and that the government did not prove the necessity, opportunity or urgency required for a law-level delegation.
- Authors of the draft note specific actions in the request could be carried out by existing executive norms and regulations and therefore do not need new law-ranked powers.
- Government ministers, led by María Seminario, have publicly warned that denying faculties for El Niño prevention would harm vulnerable communities and described a blanket rejection as inhumane.
- Some committee members have proposed a compromise to grant limited, prioritized faculties for urgent topics such as security and El Niño prevention while the full predictamen remains under discussion and no vote has been taken.