LIMA : New Congress Sits
Peru’s newly elected Democratic Constituent Congress holds its first full session today, nine months after President Alberto Fujimori dissolved the old Congress in a military-backed coup.
Some opposition members in the 80-seat assembly have proposed that the Congress fully reinstate the 1979 constitution--which Fujimori suspended--before taking on the job of amending or rewriting it.
Fujimori’s supporters won an assembly majority in Nov. 22 elections held under international pressure. Members of some major opposition parties, which had dominated the old Congress, boycotted the November vote.
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