Dina Boluarte threatens constitutional reform if lawmakers fail to bring forward national vote
However, at a plenary session that ended early Saturday, congress rejected the proposal, with 45 votes in favor, 65 against and two abstentions.Boluarte said that if lawmakers refused to bring forward the vote, she would propose a constitutional reform so that a first round of elections would be held in October and a runoff in December.
“Nobody has any interest in clinging to power,” Boluarte said on Friday. “If I am here it is because I fulfilled my constitutional responsibility.”
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