Overview
- A verbal exchange between Interior Minister César Astudillo and Senator Iber Maraví escalated during a Senate Commission of Constitution session on Sunday and the chair suspended the meeting.
- Senator Francisco Calisto Giampietri physically chest-bumped Maraví and challenged him to 'settle it outside' as other lawmakers and staffers tried to separate the parties.
- President Keiko Fujimori publicly defended Astudillo hours later and linked Maraví to Sendero Luminoso and Movadef, using terrorism accusations that intensified partisan divisions.
- Ministers had appeared before the commission to seek delegated legislative powers on security, including military roles inside prisons, post-release monitoring of dangerous offenders, and classifying violent acts as terrorism.
- Several senators urged the Senate Ethics Commission to investigate conduct from the session but no formal sanctions were reported yet, leaving the ministers' security push politically contested and the legislature more polarized.