Overview

• The draft would dissolve the National Board of Justice and create a constitutionally autonomous National Justice School that also absorbs the Judicial Academy, centralizing training, evaluation, and appointments of judges and prosecutors.
• Selection and career advancement would hinge on public merit contests run by a Governing Council drawn from former top magistrates, control authorities, and long-established law faculties, with eight-year terms and potential removal by a two-thirds Senate vote.
• The plan restructures the Public Ministry by expanding the Junta de Fiscales Supremos to 11 members and setting the prosecutor general’s term at three years with a possible two-year reelection.
• It also proposes expanding the Constitutional Court to nine magistrates with eight-year terms and designating Arequipa as its seat, with the option for decentralized sessions elsewhere.
• The commission, led by congresswoman María del Carmen Alva, schedules an internal vote for Oct. 6–7 before sending the package to the Constitution Committee, and the text outlines a one-year transition plus 30 days and another 90 to present the organic law.