Overview
- The Executive sent Project of Law No. 00098-2026-2031-CD requesting 120 days to legislate on 66 topics, a formal step recorded at the end of August.
- The Chamber of Deputies narrowed the request to 20 matters, cut the period to 90 days, and limited scope to citizen security and El Niño prevention after marathon debate and votes.
- In mid-October the Senate Constitution Commission issued a predictamen that tried to revive seven items the Deputies had rejected, including new operational powers for the National Intelligence Directorate and changes to Armed Forces attributions.
- Opposition senators protested that commission president Carlos Mesía counted remote votes to favor the official bloc, withdrew en masse, left the commission without quorum and forced repeated suspensions of debate after a verbal clash between senator Íber Maraví and Interior Minister César Astudillo.
- With the Constitutional Court unable to arbitrate inter-chamber disputes, the file remains stalled and negotiators must now reach an internal congressional consensus or risk prolonged delays to tools for crime response and El Niño preparedness.