Overview
- The committee has not formally reconvened to debate the executive request, leaving the review stalled after opposition blocs withdrew from a session and refused to participate in further meetings as of Saturday, October 17.
- Opposition senators from Juntos por el Perú, Ahora Nación, Partido del Buen Gobierno and Cívico Obras say they left in protest over committee president Carlos Mesía’s handling of a contested remote vote and accuse the majority of trying to expand the remit of the debate.
- Mesía circulated a Senate predictamen that adds seven measures to the 20 items approved by the Cámara de Diputados and called an advisers’ meeting that opposition advisers did not attend; he has said he will not call a new formal session without cross‑bench consensus.
- Under the Senate rules and Article 105, if the upper chamber does not act by Monday, October 19 the congressional president would be empowered to remit the autógrafa approved by the Cámara de Diputados to President Keiko Fujimori for promulgation.
- Beyond the immediate timetable, the dispute raises broader stakes: the contest over whether the Senate can modify the Deputies’ text will affect urgent security and Niño response measures and could set a precedent about what happens when a bicameral review window lapses.