Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Constitution of Peru
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Republic of Peru | ||
 This article is part of the series: |
||
|
|
||
| Government | ||
|---|---|---|
| Constitution of Peru
|
||
| President
Vice President |
||
|
||
| Judicial System
Supreme Court of the Republic |
||
| Elections | ||
| Presidential elections National elections Peruvian Constituent Assembly elections, 1978 |
||
| Political Parties | ||
| A.P.R.A. List of political parties in Peru |
||
| Region & Local government | ||
| Regional Governments Governors Provinces, Cities, and Districts Municipalities |
||
|
Other countries · Politics Portal |
||
The Constitution of Peru is the supreme law of Peru. The current constitution, enacted on December 31, 1993, is Peru's fifth in the 20th century and replaced the 1979 Constitution.[1] The Constitution was drafted by the Democratic Constitutional Congress that was convened by President Alberto Fujimori during the Peruvian Constitutional Crisis of 1992 that followed his 1992 dissolution of Congress, was promulgated on December 29, 1993.
The current Constitution of Peru differs from the 1979 Constitution in that it gives greater power to the president. For example, it allowed for reelection, reduced the bicameral 240-member congress to a unicameral 120 Congress of the Republic,[2] not only affirmed the president's power to veto found in the 1979 Constitution, but also gave him the power to use a line item veto, and mandated that all tax laws receive prior approval by the Ministry of Economics and Finance. While the Constitution of 1979 allowed the president to dissolve congress after congress censured cabinent members three times, the current constitution allows the president to do so after only two censures. The Constitution allows the president to decree laws as long as he first informs the Congress of his intent to do so. If the president dissolves congress, the Constitution gives him the power to simply rule by decree.
The 1979 Constitution was promulgated on July 12, 1979 by a Constituent Assembly elected in June 1978 following 10 years of military rule and replaced the suspended 1933 Constitution. It became effective in 1980 with the re-election of deposed President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. It limited the president to a single five-year term and established a bicameral legislature consisting of a 60-member Senate (upper house) and a 180-member Chamber of Deputies (lower house). It also eliminated the literacy requirement for voting and extended suffrage to all adults 18 or older.[2]
- ^ Economist Intelligence Unit. "Country Briefings: Peru – Political forces", The Economist, 2005-01-12. Retrieved on February 23, 2007.
- ^ a b Peru: Government. Encyclopedia of the Nations – Americas. Thomson Gale (2006). Retrieved on February 23, 2007.
- (Spanish) The Constitution of Peru
 |
This Peru-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
