Fujimori closes Congress and intervenes Judicial Power
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori dissolved the National Congress and totally reorganized the Judicial Power, the National Council of the Magistracy, the Court of Constitutional Guarantees and the Public Prosecutor's Office, with the support of the forces of law and order. The presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are arrested at their homes.
On April 5, 1992, at 10:30 p.m., the Constitutional President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, with the support of the police, announces the dissolution of the National Parliament and the total reorganization of the Judicial Power, the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), the Court of Constitutional Guarantees and the Public Prosecutor's Office. The president of the Senate, Felipe Osterling Parodi, and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Ramirez del Villar, are arrested at their respective homes. The following day, April 6, the new cabinet was sworn in under the presidency of Oscar de la Puente Raygada, who read the text of the first decree law of the regime called "Ley de Bases del Gobierno de Emergencia y Reconstrucción Nacional", which instituted the elaboration of a new Political Constitution. On April 9, around 100 representatives among deputies and senators declared the Presidency vacant due to "moral incapacity of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori" and appointed second vice-president Carlos García y García as temporary president.