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The Claim

A proposal would grant total immunity to the President of Peru and members of the Congress of Peru for crimes committed previously.

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The Short Version

The available evidence does not support this description of the proposal. Recent official reporting from Peru’s Congress indicates the restored immunity proposal for legislators excludes crimes committed before election and is not a blanket shield. No cited source substantiates a proposal granting retroactive immunity to the President, and describing the measure as “total immunity” misstates a procedural protection as full impunity.

Caveats

  • A draft text discussing pre-mandate crimes applied only to legislators and was not the same as the committee-approved proposal.
  • “Immunity” here refers to procedural barriers to prosecution, not automatic pardon or amnesty for all crimes.
  • The claim wrongly combines two separate scopes: congressional immunity reform and presidential protection.

The Receipts

  1. El Congreso de Perú aprobó quitar la inmunidad al presidente, los ministros y los congresistas

    Infobae

  2. Aprueban propuesta que restituye la inmunidad parlamentaria con mecanismos de control y plazos definidos

    Congreso de la República del Perú

  3. Peru: Congress Runs Roughshod Over Rule of Law

    Human Rights Watch

  4. Bancada de Vladimir Cerrón plantea volver a la inmunidad parlamentaria: las consecuencias y riesgos de la propuesta

    El Comercio

  5. Constitution – Political Constitution of Peru (unofficial English translation)

    ClinRegs (NIH)

  6. In Peru, Congress' Move Against Immunity Isn't What It Seems

    Americas Quarterly

  7. Apuntes sobre la reforma de la inmunidad parlamentaria

    IDEHPUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

  8. Congreso aprueba la restauración de la inmunidad parlamentaria ...

    YouTube (programa informativo peruano)

  9. Predictamen recaído en los proyectos de ley 5652/2023-CR y 8907/2024-CR

    LP Derecho

  10. Political Constitution of Peru

    CELE – Observatorio Legislativo

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