Overview
- The Constitution Committee, which approved the draft Tuesday by 18 votes to 1 abstention, sent the proposal on to the next steps in Congress.
- The measure creates a single online registry that would collect and publish precedents from the Constitutional Court, the judiciary, and regulators such as Indecopi, Ositrán, Osinergmin, and Servir.
- It targets today’s patchwork of databases that do not connect with each other, a gap that makes binding criteria hard to find and leads to uneven outcomes in similar cases.
- Judges, lawyers, public officials, and citizens would be able to quickly see which interpretations are mandatory, which could cut needless lawsuits and speed up dispute resolution.
- In the same session, the panel approved legality reviews of nine legislative decrees, including DL 1579 on funding local security efforts and DL 1584 on restarting stalled public works.