Overview
- Congress issued legislative resolutions in El Peruano adopting the reglamentos for the new Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, with legal effect beginning the day after the JNE proclaims the 2026 results.
- The Senate is declared indissoluble under Article 134, remaining in full session during any interregnum if the Chamber of Deputies is dissolved.
- Membership is set at a minimum of 60 senators and 130 deputies elected for five-year terms, with numbers subject to change by organic law.
- The Senate receives exclusive appointment and ratification powers over top state posts, including the Ombudsman, the Comptroller General, Constitutional Court magistrates, three BCR directors with ratification of its president, and the SBS superintendent.
- The Chamber of Deputies is assigned core control tools such as interpellation and censure, confidence votes, investigative commissions, and qualification of presidential vacancy, while the rulebooks establish 16 deputy commissions, seven ordinary Senate commissions plus three non-legislative groups, and set the deputies’ leadership election by July 26, 2026 with installation on July 27.