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(CNN Spanish) --
President Pedro Castillo sent a constitutional reform project to the Peruvian Congress on Monday so that the population can decide whether to authorize a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution.
In an official letter sent to the President of Parliament, María del Carmen Alva, Castillo requests that Congress “debate and approve this proposal, and that citizens be consulted through the referendum in the same electoral act of the Regional and Municipal Elections 2022”.
Peruvians are called to the polls in October to elect new local authorities.
Castillo had advanced on Friday in a decentralized Council of Ministers in Cusco that would send the proposal to Congress.
The president of Congress, from the opposition Popular Action party, said this Saturday on her Twitter account: “President Castillo forgets that the country's priorities are the fight against insecurity, unemployment and corruption.
There is not a single opinion poll that the Constituent Assembly is a priority for Peruvians.”
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