Constituent Assembly of Peru

Constituent Assembly

Asamblea Constituyente
Republic of Peru
Type
Type
History
Established28 July 1978
Disbanded13 July 1979
Preceded byCongress of the Republic of Peru
Succeeded byCongress of the Republic of Peru
Leadership
President of the Constituent Assembly
Seats100
Meeting place
Legislative Palace (Peru)

The Constituent Assembly was the tenth Constituent Assembly of Peru, convened by the government of General Francisco Morales Bermudez to facilitate the return of democracy following a decade of the self-styled Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces. It was settled on 28 July 1978 and was led by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, historical leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Its main mission was to develop a new constitution replacing the old 1933 Constitution. This new Constitution was enacted and promulgated on 12 July 1979, and entered into force on 28 July 1980, on the opening of the constitutional government of the architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry. It was replaced 14 years later by the 1993 Constitution.