Chamber of Deputies votes Thursday on censure motion against Minister Astudillo over security crisis
The full chamber will debate on 1 October the motion against César Astudillo, supported by 35 signatures from three parliamentary groups. 66 votes are needed and the projection stands at 64.
Deputies debate censure of Interior Minister on 1 October
The Chamber of Deputies will vote this Thursday, 1 October, on the censure motion against Interior Minister César Astudillo, in the context of the public security crisis facing the country. The lower chamber's Spokespersons' Committee adopted this schedule on Tuesday, 29 September, according to infobae.com. The debate will last three hours, distributed proportionally among the parliamentary groups.
Three parliamentary groups back the motion with 35 signatures
The motion was presented on 24 September by Juntos por el Perú, with the backing of the Civic Party for Works and the Good Governance Party, and gathered 35 signatures. The proponents argue that his "manifest lack of leadership capacity and unsuitability to exercise the office" has been established.
The document is based on two pillars. The first is the increase in fatal violence: according to the National Deaths Information System (Sinadef), up to August there were 1,499 homicides this year, an average of 6.16 cases daily. This figure exceeds the total for each year between 2017 and 2023, as well as the averages for 2025 (6.07) and 2024 (5.6).
The second pillar is the murder of journalist Susy Aponte Polo, known as "China Polo" and a former candidate for the Áncash Regional Government. Aponte Polo was killed on 19 September, nine days after publicly reporting death threats received from three prisons. These threats warned that General PNP Víctor Revoredo Farfán, then director of Criminal Investigation, had allegedly ordered an attack on her life.
Astudillo rejects the initiative
Minister Astudillo responded that the motion seeks to obstruct the work he is carrying out with the National Police against crime, and characterised the initiative as an attempt to interfere in his sector's actions.
The votes: censure reaches 64, needs 66
For the censure to succeed at least 66 votes are required. As of 28 September, the projection totalled 64: 32 from Juntos por el Perú, 14 from Works, and 18 from the Good Governance Party. The motion needs at least two additional endorsements, which would have to come from Now Nation.
However, that parliamentary group agreed by majority not to support the censure. Deputy José Marcelo Salazar explained that, after two months in office, no "ethical wrongdoing or conduct contrary to morality" was observed in the minister's behaviour. The agreement does not rule out a dissenting vote, which could be decided in the coming hours.
Days earlier, senator and Now Nation leader Alfonso López Chau had already anticipated an opposing stance, noting that such a sanction would only be justified in the face of "flagrant, scandalous structural errors".
Source: Google News PE — Crime