People with a Peruvian mother or father can decide if they want to become Peruvians by birth.

The Peruvian Congress approved yesterday a modification of the article 52 of the Constitution so that the children of a Peruvian father or mother born abroad are considered Peruvian by birth, wrote La Opinión.

The constitutional amendment obtained 103 votes, leading to its approval.

During the previous debate, the parliamentary Ursula Letona, of the Fujimorist Popular Force party (Fuerza Popular), assured that this reform will allow “for people of legal age, of a Peruvian father or mother born abroad, may decide to be Peruvians by birth”, according to information from this website.
This modification will allow for these people, and not their parents, to decide if they want to be Peruvians by birth.

Letona explained that the rule resolves the problem that was generated when the children of Peruvians born abroad lost the condition if being Peruvians by birth “simply by an administrative function” if they were not registered by their parents when they were minors.

Luz Salgado, also from Fuerza Popular, and author of the reform, considered that this vote was historic. “With it, Congress resolved to give the alternative to hundreds of Peruvians worldwide”, said La Opinión.
To her, this decision confirms the constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination.

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