In Peru, the citizens' collective for life has decided to collect 81,thousand signatures, 0.3% of the electoral roll, to present a legislative initiative to repeal the laws in favor of organized crime that have been enacted by the congress of the republic. Our correspondent Ramiro Angulo brings us the details. teleSUR
00:00In Peru, Citizens Collective for Life has decided to collect 81,000 signatures, 0.3% of the electoral roll, to present a legislative initiative to repeal the laws in favor of organized crime that have been enacted by the Congress of the Republic.
00:14Correspondent Ramiro Angulo with the details.
00:16Using the right to participate in politics, the Citizens Collective for Life has begun collecting signatures to repeal laws that favor organized crime.
00:32We are going to collect the 81,000 signatures and generate a citizen movement of active participation in politics from the formation of law and try to build public policies that favor security.
00:44In that line is that this struggle that we are undertaking is located, in order to present a bill to the Congress of the Republic and unmask the political sector that has made possible the increase in crime.
00:55The initiative, which requires 81,000 signatures, seeks to motivate the population to participate in politics in a country where, according to official data, six deaths occur.
01:09The citizens have voted overwhelmingly against parliamentary immunity in 2018, in the referendum held on December 9.
01:16More than 90% voted against parliamentary immunity, the government approved parliamentary immunity.
01:22We voted against re-election, the government approved regulation.
01:25We voted against bicameralists, the government approved bicameralists.
01:28That is, there is a permanent mockery to the citizens by the Congress.
01:31For the promoters of the project, the lack of efficient policies against crime shows the complicity of the authorities with the crime.
01:41Before it was by association, but now they are charging individually, so the situation is terrible.
01:52Here in San Juan, nobody escaped.
01:53Both street vendors, merchants, grocers, motorcycle taxi drivers, transporters, all of them already pay a quota.
02:01That is, the criminal organization managed today, because it has enough resources to finance the hard killer to go to kill without mercy.
02:08With the good reconception of the initiative, the promoters hope that citizen pressure will grow and enforce the Congress to repeal the question laws.
02:23But they are understanding, in the first place, that there is a loophole, an opportunity, such as the presentation of the citizenship itself for a bill.
02:32So that means that people are becoming more politicized, more aware of the needs of this instrument.
02:38That is why I also, as a workhead, am incorporated in this process.
02:42And not only me, my neighbors, my colleagues participate in this process.
02:48If the bill is rejected, its promoters will continue to collect signatures to promote a broad popular consultation
02:56in order to eliminate these norms that threaten the right to live.
03:01Desde Lima, para Telesur, Ramiro Angulo Maquiavelo.
