Overview
- Four Senate blocs — Juntos por el Perú, Buen Gobierno, Ahora Nación and Obras — submitted the removal request to Senate President Miguel Torres on Sept. 17–18, citing negligent performance.
- One key allegation points to Gutiérrez’s Aug. 27 public remarks that tied a possible dissolution of Congress to higher presidential approval and budget savings, which petitioners say politicized an autonomous oversight office.
- A second ground relies on a Sept. 6 Cuarto Poder report based on a Contraloría control document that alleges irregular hiring, promotions and altered service records at the Defensoría after direct meetings with the ombudsman.
- Procedural rules require the Senate to send the case to the Commission of Special Procedures, which has 30 business days to examine evidence, request defenses and issue a report before any plenary debate.
- If the commission’s report leads to a plenary vote, removal would need a two-thirds majority of the 60-seat Senate and the ombudsman or his lawyer has the right to be heard in a formal hearing.