Citizen Participation in Its Oversight Function: Toward Its Constitutional Recognition in Peru

Vargas P.S.H. · Estudios de Deusto (2025) · DOI: 10.18543/ed.3456

Resumen

The Peruvian Constitution is limited to regulating citizen participation through referendums, legislative initiatives, and the recall of public officials—mechanisms that prove insufficient in meeting citizens’ demands for transparency, accountability, and oversight of public power. This article supports the need for the constitutional recognition of citizen participation in its oversight function, moving beyond its current treatment in secondary legislation. Such recognition would contribute to strengthening the democratic system and granting greater legitimacy, effectiveness, and shared responsibility to oversight processes, in which the people, as the original holders of power, would not only have the right to participate in political decision-making but also the right to supervise and control the use of public resources through the citizen participation mechanisms designed by the Office of the Comptroller General of Peru. © Universidad de Deusto

Instituciones: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola