Overview
- Prime Minister Ernesto Álvarez asked the Constitution Commission to delegate 60 days of legislative authority to the Executive to confront entrenched organized crime.
- The government outlined 58 measures split into 26 on citizen security, 24 on responsible economic growth, and 8 on institutional strengthening.
- Key proposals include criminalizing preparatory acts of extortion to permit intervention from the first threat and creating a national superintendency for prison internment and resocialization.
- Lawmakers flagged risks involving MERESE environmental funds, proposed new superintendencies, a transfer of animal welfare duties to SENASA, SUNAT access to debtor funds, and potential bureaucratization of ANIN.
- A decisive commission debate is scheduled for November 28, as the Interior Ministry reported 18 criminal organizations dismantled, more than 1,600 gangs broken up, over 9,000 wanted individuals detained, and 803 firearms seized.