Constitution of Peru

The Political Constitution of the Republic of Peru is the supreme law of Peru. The current constitution, enacted on 31 December 1993, is Peru's fifth constitution of the 20th century and replaced the 1979 Constitution; it was drafted by the Democratic Constituent Congress convened by President Alberto Fujimori during the constitutional crisis that followed his 1992 self-coup and dissolution of Congress, and its final text was approved in a 1993 referendum. Compared with the 1979 Constitution, the 1993 text gave greater power to the president, permitting reelection, reducing a bicameral 240-member congress to a unicameral 120-seat Congress of the Republic, affirming and extending the president's veto power to include a line-item veto, and requiring prior approval of all tax laws by the Ministry of Economics and Finance, while also making it easier for the president to dissolve congress after fewer censures of prime ministers.