Overview
- Acción Popular legislator Wilson Soto filed bill No. 14153/2025-CR to amend Article 201 and permit a single additional five‑year term for the seven members of the Constitutional Court.
- The proposal states it would not add public costs and aims to strengthen legal certainty and jurisprudential continuity, citing longer term models in countries such as Colombia, Chile, Germany and Spain.
- The initiative has only been introduced and must follow Peru’s constitutional reform process across consecutive legislative periods to advance.
- Opponents, including analyst Eduardo Salmón, argue the change would cement a perceived Congress–Court alignment and call for shifting magistrate selection to an independent technical body instead of Congress.
- Recent Court decisions highlighted by critics include upholding laws facilitating congressional spending, weakening Sunedu oversight (Law 31520), limiting application of pre‑2002 crimes against humanity cited in Daniel Urresti’s case, and validating Law 31751.