Constitutional Court of Peru votes in favor of legality in the decision of Martín Vizcarra to dissolve the Congress

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(CNN Spanish) - The plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Peru ruled in favor of the legality of the decision taken by President Martín Vizcarra when the Congress was dissolved on September 30, 2019.

With 4 votes in favor and 3 against, it was voted to approve the presentation of one of the magistrates of this court who proposed declaring the demand of the former president of Parliament and president of the Permanent Commission, Pedro Olaechea, unfounded. After the dissolution of the Congress, Olaechea, presented before the Constitutional Court a demand that wanted this organism to declare void the decision taken by President Vizcarra.

Although the voting has been carried out and has been done during a public hearing, for the first time in the history of the Constitutional Court, a sentence that includes each of these votes must still be drafted.

On September 30, 2019, President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Peruvian parliament under one of the articles of the Constitution. This happened after a series of confrontations between the Executive and the Congress, of an opposition majority, which began under the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The ex-president resigned amid accusations about his relationship with the Brazilian company Odebrecht. Vizcarra, vice president of Kuczynski, assumed power, but the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative did not improve.

Martín Vizcarra