Overview
- Law Nº32515, published on December 4, requires TVPerú and Radio Nacional to devote a minimum of two hours each day to Congress-related programming.
- The statute mandates uninterrupted live transmission of plenary and permanent sessions on an IRTP terrestrial digital subchannel nationwide where TDT infrastructure exists.
- It also orders IRTP to carry the official Congress signal on its DTH satellite platform for permanent 24/7 national distribution.
- These obligations were inserted as complementary provisions not included in the Executive’s original August budget-and-debt proposal and take effect on January 1, 2026.
- Former IRTP chief Hugo Coya and ANP president Zuliana Lainez caution that the change risks giving incumbents outsized exposure and does not replace independent journalistic coverage.