Overview
- The Senate session, which erupted Monday, Oct. 12, was suspended after a tense confrontation between senators Íber Maraví and Francisco Calisto Giampietri that interrupted debate on legislative faculties sent by the Chamber of Deputies.
- Senator Héctor Ventura said the Senate can 'perfect' the deputies' text to add provisions clarifying the role of the Armed Forces in support of the National Police and urged Congress to give legal backing to those operations.
- Pedro Hernández, president of the Constitutional Court, said the court will not intervene on its own initiative in the dispute over the term 'desnaturalizar' and that a formal competencial demand is the proper route for judicial review.
- Calisto defended his intervention in the altercation and declined to apologize, and other senators warned that presidential rhetoric has inflamed tensions and will complicate efforts to reach an institutional agreement.
- Separately, the Corte Superior Nacional set the Árbitros‑Odebrecht control hearing for Nov. 9, 2026, ordered the Public Ministry to provide a forensic accounting report and said the session will be held virtually via Google Meet.