Ethics Commission approves report that recommends suspending Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu for 120 days

With 13 votes in favor, the Ethics Commission approved the final report that recommends suspending the congressman for 120 days and deducting his salary. Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu (Fuerza Popular) for misogynistic comments towards his colleague Patricia Juárez. Now, the plenary session must ratify the decision.

The previous question is rejected with 10 votes against. Valer’s proposal only had one vote in favor (his), while three legislators abstained. Now the final report that proposes suspension for 120 days is being evaluated.

Lizarzaburu intervenes to request that the maximum sanction not be applied.

Congressman Héctor Valer tries to shield Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu before the Ethics Commission by proposing that he not be suspended for 120 days, but only for 30, for the misogynistic phrases he made last December.

The Ethics Commission will decide this January 29 if the Fuerza Popular congressman, Juan Carlos Lizarzaburuwill be suspended for 120 days for having made sexist comments against his bench colleague, Patricia Juarez. Previously, this group held a session where three files linked to the complaints against the parliamentary.

“It is an annoying topic that I am not going to talk about again, but I hope that the Commission is pronounced, according to what corresponds to the seriousness of the offense. I have asked publicly and on repeated occasions, I believe that this issue should be closed with the fair recommendation that Ethics will make. We have asked for the maximum sanction. So, let’s see what they recommend,” said P in an interview with Channel N.

Previously, Juárez also called on other women not to remain silent and to report these types of cases. “I think these things must end. They are events that affect the dignity of a person so much that they must, finally, be situations that serve as an example so that they do not occur again, at least in the field of Congress. He must give the maximum sanction, it is what corresponds,” he expressed.

At the time the incident occurred, on December 13, 2023, various political figures criticized the expressions of the Fujimori during the eighth extraordinary session of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations.

“I have filed a complaint against Lizarzaburu for his offensive comments to all Peruvian women. He Congress must be a space of tolerance zero towards machismo, harassment and harassment,” he indicated Susel Paredesof Democratic Changevia Twitter.

Then, the National Disciplinary Secretariat of the bench of Popular Force decided to suspend the congressman for six months on January 9.

Initially, the orange legislator maintained that this conversation was of a “personal” nature with another ‘father of the country’ and a parliamentary advisor.

However, he later stated that he actually spoke with people who are not linked to politics or public service. “The day after the leak, it was a very difficult day for me. I was approached by the press when I entered the plenary session of Congress and I was thinking only of talking to my aforementioned colleague to express your apologies again and personally for what happened; Therefore, the statement that she was talking to another congressman and an advisor was a lapse,” she said.

Through a publication on his social networks, he once again apologized to his colleague and assured that he would “assume the consequences” of his actions.

He Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations issued a statement on the matter on Saturday, January 27, where they “strongly” reject all types violence against womenlike the sexist expressions he made Lizarzaburu.

In that sense, they established that “any form of violence against women should not be tolerated or justified, let alone go unpunished.”

“The authorities and public servants “They must set an example of coherence in the fight that the Peruvian State has undertaken to eradicate violence against women of all ages, who live every day in fear and at risk of suffering acts of violence that denigrate them. This must change!” , reads in the text.

“We hope that this Monday, January 29, the Ethics Commission of the Congress of the Republic will approve the final report so that they can proceed with the effective sanction of 120 days of suspension and the deduction of their salaries. “Women have the right to live free of violence,” adds the MIMP.