On January 20, 1988, the Executive Power called an extraordinary session of the legislature to deal with the interpretation of two articles of the law for the nationalization of the banking system and the regionalization of the country. During the session there was a tie vote on the bill for …
The Executive Power called an extraordinary legislature to deal with the interpretation of two articles of the law for the nationalization of the banking system and the regionalization of the country. This call was made on January 20, 1988, in a political context marked by the controversy over the nationalization …
On June 9, 1988, the Executive Branch called for two extraordinary legislatures of the Peruvian Congress. The first legislature was scheduled between June 14 and 26 to approve the bills for the creation of the pending regions within the framework of the country's regionalization process. The second legislature was to …
On February 6, 1989, the first extraordinary legislature called by the Executive Branch was installed. The purpose of this extraordinary session of Congress was to culminate the process of approval of the bill on amparo and on the elections of the regional assemblies. Both laws were subsequently enacted by President …
The Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the creation of the Council for National Pacification. The objective of this council would be to present to the Executive Power a plan agreed upon with the social forces of the country to confront violence and terrorism. The approval took place in a context …
The Executive Branch called for an extraordinary session of Congress, which took place from January 5 to 19, 1990. The main objective of this extraordinary session was to debate and approve bills related to the country's decentralization process. This call was made in a complex political context, during the last …
The Senate approved the granting of extraordinary powers to the Executive Branch so that, within sixty days (until November 30, 1990), it could issue legislative decrees creating, modifying or eliminating taxes and eliminating tax exemptions. This measure was taken in the context of the new government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, …
The government issued Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM, which specified that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in the zones declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice. This decree established that police and Armed Forces personnel accredited in the emergency zones would …
The Executive Branch, in an act described as unprecedented, promulgates and publishes the Annual General Budget Law in the official gazette El Peruano. The government makes observations to 15 of the 313 articles of the law. This act marks a moment of tension between the Executive and the Congress in …
The Executive Power called for an extraordinary session of the Congress of the Republic, which took place from February 4 to 8, 1991. The agenda of this extraordinary session included five main points, among which was the modification of some articles of the Budget Law. This meeting took place in …
The Executive Branch returned to Parliament the bill regulating the writ of amparo and habeas corpus. This bill had been approved during the last extraordinary session of Congress. The return of the bill by the Executive represented a rejection of the parliamentary regulation of these fundamental constitutional remedies for the …
The ministerial cabinet appeared before the Congress of the Republic to request that extraordinary powers be granted to the Executive Branch. These powers were to legislate in four specific areas: national pacification, reorganization of the State, private investment and promotion of employment. This request was framed in a context of …
The Executive Branch enacted the Banking Law in April 1991 without giving time for the suggestions that were beginning to be prepared by the interested parties. Among those affected by this decision was the Federation of Bank Employees, which had no opportunity to present its observations or proposals. This enactment …
Alberto Fujimori's government issued supreme decrees with the first 14 measures to reform the Peruvian State and foreign trade in March 1991. In April 1991, the government continued to decree measures linked to the so-called structural reform, which included the end of the monopoly of state-owned enterprises, the liberalization of …
The Executive Branch, within the framework of the democratization of governmental decisions, announces a unionization bill that regulates the right to strike, free unionization and collective bargaining. This bill was presented as part of the structural reforms that the government had been implementing in various sectors. The bill is framed …
Law 25327 is published in El Peruano, which empowers the central government to issue provisions related to national pacification, employment policies and investment growth. This law grants extraordinary powers to the Executive Branch regarding pacification. Congress had previously debated on granting these powers to the cabinet of ministers. The law …
The Executive Power, using the powers granted by Congress, published a provision regulating the General Sales Tax (IGV) rate at 14% and the Selective Consumption Tax by means of Legislative Decree 655. However, Supreme Decree 180-91 of Economy and Finance suspended the application of the simplified regime of the general …
By means of Legislative Decree 655, the government eliminated any monopoly or exclusivity by PETROPERU and its subsidiaries with respect to the commercialization of hydrocarbons. This measure is part of the structural reforms implemented by the government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori during 1991. The decree was issued within the framework …
In August 1991, the Executive Branch lifted the state of emergency that had been declared in the department of San Martin. This measure took place in a context where the government had been extending states of emergency in various regions of the country due to political violence. The lifting of …
The Peruvian government published Legislative Decree 677, which substantially modified the labor participation regime in the country's companies. This norm altered the participation of workers in the profit, management and ownership of the companies. The decree replaced the labor community regime that previously existed. This measure was part of the …
The Chamber of Deputies of the Peruvian Congress did not grant the extraordinary powers requested by the Minister of Economy to legislate on taxation. This decision took place in a context of growing conflict between the Executive Branch and the Congress, due to the recent deluge of legislative decrees issued …
Alfonso de los Heros Pérez-Albela was appointed as the new president of the Council of Ministers during November 1991. This appointment took place in a context of growing tension between the Executive and the Congress, particularly due to the issuance of 126 legislative decrees by the government. The new cabinet …
The Executive issued 79 legislative decrees on different topics, although most of them dealt with national security. Among these decrees were the national mobilization law, the national defense system law, the national intelligence system law, regulations for the Armed Forces in areas not declared in emergency, the recognition of self-defense …
On November 28, 1991, the Senate approved a law regulating the peasant and urban patrols, defining them as popular, peaceful and democratic organizations. The main purposes established in this law are self-defense and active collaboration with national pacification. This legislation sought to regulate and provide a legal framework for the …
In December 1991, 126 legislative decrees issued by the Executive Branch in use of extraordinary powers granted by Congress went into effect. These decrees covered various topics, most of them related to national security, including the national mobilization law, the national defense system law, the national intelligence system law, regulations …
The Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Republic censures the Minister of Agriculture, Enrique Rossl Link. This occurred in the context of growing tensions between the Executive Power and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. The censure took place at the end of the first ordinary …
The Executive Branch, in an unprecedented act, promulgates and publishes in the official gazette El Peruano the Annual General Budget Law, making observations to 15 of its 313 articles. This fact creates an unprecedented constitutional crisis by not fully enacting the law sent by Congress. By making these observations, the …
The Chamber of Deputies approves bills modifying legislative decrees 726 and 743 on national pacification enacted by the Executive Branch. Decree 726 allowed the entry of the forces of law and order into university premises in case of flagrante delicto. Decree 743 established civilian participation in the National Defense System. …
The Congress convened a second extraordinary legislature to examine the bills that President Alberto Fujimori had observed. On January 27, the Senate approved by majority a bill repealing twelve legislative decrees on national pacification enacted by the Executive Branch and presented others of a democratic nature. The Chamber of Deputies …
In January 1992, the Peruvian Congress passed bills modifying the Executive Branch's legislative decrees on national pacification. The Senate approved a bill whereby the intervention of the Armed Forces in areas not declared in a state of emergency could be carried out at the request of the political authority or, …
The senatorial commission on pacification presents a harsh balance sheet on the social cost of political violence in the country during 1991. This report was presented in the context of intense confrontations between the Executive Branch and the Congress, particularly on issues of national pacification and legislative decrees. The balance …
The president of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, expressed to the government his public support for the pacification strategy embodied in the legislative decrees issued under the powers conferred by Congress. This support took place in a context of confrontation between the Executive …
On January 27, 1992, the Senate of the Republic approved by majority a bill repealing twelve legislative decrees on national pacification that had been enacted by the Executive Branch. At the same time, the Senate presented other bills which, with the same pacification objective, had a true democratic character according …
During an extraordinary legislature self-convened by the Congress, 28 bills were approved that modified or repealed legislative decrees previously issued by the Executive Branch. Among these bills were those related to national pacification, which were positively modified by the Parliament. President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori described the results of this extraordinary …
On April 5, 1992, Alberto Fujimori interrupted democracy and promulgated Decree Law No. 25418 instituting the Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction. This coup d'état, known as a self-coup, marked the beginning of a period of intensified human rights violations. During the month of May, the Executive Branch drafted and …
The Executive headed by Fujimori ruled by himself and before himself, like absolute monarchs, for 9 months, from April 1992 to January 1993. Having dissolved the Legislative Power and destroyed the autonomy of the Judicial Power, he left the Constitution without effect and produced new legislation by 'decree-laws'. This is …
In August 1992, the Peruvian Executive Branch created the crime of treason through anti-terrorist legislation. This crime punished with life imprisonment the leaders or leaders of subversive groups or those who participated in or collaborated with the carrying out of attacks through the use of explosive or similar materials. This …
President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori promulgated Law 26492, which establishes as obligatory the application of the controversial Amnesty Law, whose bill has been supported by the majority of Congress. With this, Judge Antonia Saquicuray Sanchez's ruling on the inapplicability of the amnesty benefit for those involved in the Barrios Altos case …
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