Other “banks” of Congress are in ruins | principle

As it is about to complete two years of administration, the current Congress has done nothing but earn the disapproval of its own members as several controversial and illegal actions during that period have completely tarnished its image.

At this point, it can be said that not only are formal benches and regulated by the mayor’s office, but also others who group them for immoral or criminal reasons like never before.

For example, there is the “Pancada” of those who face legal cases, those who have reduced the wages of their workers, “Los Niños”, those who supported the government of Pedro Castillo with their votes, or one that has been increasing recently: those who travel abroad with tickets and daily wages by private companies.

Members of these “benches” intersect with each other because they are not exclusive: you can belong to more than one at the same time, because their combinations are not ideological, but group negative common denominators together (see infographic).

There are more every day.

Let’s start with a “bench” that now has more members than houses. It is very old and will soon surpass “Los Niños”. We refer to the “Mocasultos” which includes Heidi Juarez, Katie Ugarte, Maria Acuna, Rocio Torres, Maria Cordero, Jose Arreola, Hilda Portero, Jorge Flores, Edgar Tello and Magali Ruiz.

Almost everyone in this group has gone through the Ethics Commission, but they haven’t received approval. At least Juárez, Ruiz and Torres were protected by the task force, whose suspensions were reduced to a freeze on their assets and a public reprimand. In other words, they are sheltered with impunity.

However, to pursue some cases in other commissions, such as the Subcommittee on Constitutional Impeachments, Congresswoman Kira Algaraz approved the constitutional complaints of four controversial legislators: Rocio Torres, Magali Ruiz, Maria Acuna, and Katie Ugarte.

own light.

Another bench that has always “shined” is “Los Niños”. Betsy Chavez (suspended), Hilda Portero, Luis Aragon, Jose Arriola, Katie Ugarte, Francis Paredes, Bazion Davila, Silvia Monteza, Pedro Martinez, Carlos Zeballos, Jerman Taguri, Oscar, Gurdion, Amergori Zia, Amergori Zia, Carlos Alva and Wilson Soto.

They all face a preliminary investigation at the prosecutor’s office for organized crime.

Meanwhile, a “bank” we describe below has made news in recent days. It’s “passengers”. Carol Paredes also stars Silvia Monteza, Ilyich Lopez, Jorge Flores, Kelly Portalatino and Elizabeth Medina. Also joined are Luis Aragón and Patricia Chirinos who traveled to Spain thanks to Huawei. Let’s remember that Aragon is the head of the Transport and Communications Commission.

According to experts such as Alejandro Rospigliosi and Ivan Lanegra, Secretary General of Transparency, traveling with tickets paid for by a private company can constitute the giving of gifts, which also violates parliamentary ethics.

But there is more. Another “bench” is the legislators who are authorized by the Congress itself to hear various cases. Featuring Freddie Diaz, Betsy Chavez, Pasion Davila and Enrique Wong.

The first two have been suspended from congressional functions, while the other two have been banned for certain terms they have already completed.

Analysis.

What caused this Congress to reach such a bad state? According to political analyst Luis Nunes, this parliament is worse than others the country has had because there are those who put their interests above technical and representative functions.

“In other legislatures we’ve had dog-killers, foot-washers, cable-robbers, and now we have this, where there are pure ‘ninos’ and other unmentionables for which the Ethics Commission has not done much,” he told Corio.

This type of action, he added, “not only taints the powers of the state but also causes terrible damage to democracy”.

In the same sense, the expert Juan de la Puente thinks that it is undeniable that it is a bad parliament, and everything indicates that “we have reached the rock”.

He argued that we are in a moment of representational crisis, in which the walls separating left and right have been broken down, and since ideological identities have been destroyed, “a kind of toxic, desperate representation for anything to survive”. .

“We are facing a system of vested interests and a private agenda. We have a parliament that has privatized politics. It has made parliamentary politics a private affair, where benches, parties, programs and less jobs are not valued,” he said.

He adds that the privatization of politics is driven by the absence of parliamentary re-election, and they know that it is the only chance to achieve personal gains.

“Politics is a public matter, but Congress has become a private matter. Interests are privatized through privatization. Now they don’t care about anything, just themselves. Rather than sharing, impunity is exchange (at the Ethics Commission)”, he added.

Criminal Judge Javier Aguirre estimated that cases like “Los Ninos” or “Mochasueldos” could only go to preparatory trial next year, despite serious information against the legislators. “We’re going to celebrate one year since the preliminary hearing in the ‘Los Niños’ case, and the high school may be seen in the same period,” he said.