Overview
- The dispute is between Óscar Reto, president of the Cámara de Diputados, and Miguel Ángel Torres, president of the Senado and of Congress, over who should lead and participate in deliberations on the government’s 2027–2028 budget proposal.
- Reto says deputies were excluded and has demanded proper consultation and more time for technical analysis of the more than 500‑page draft that he calls rushed and submitted without full participation.
- Torres has defended the Senate’s handling of the proposal, blamed the lack of quorum on Reto’s absence from a follow-up meeting, and publicly promoted internal austerity measures for the legislature.
- The budget review session was reprogrammed for 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday to allow technical agreements to be checked before the Cámara de Diputados plenary at 3:00 p.m., but the procedural conflict remains unresolved.
- Torres has cited returned and projected savings—reporting S/300 million returned this year and reductions reported between S/400 million and S/450 million for next year—which has raised concerns about whether cuts would hamper Congress’s constitutional functions and operational capacity.