By Alexander Villegas
LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian&nbsp;President&nbsp;Dina Boluarte has put forward a&nbsp;new&nbsp;bill&nbsp;to bring&nbsp;elections forward to&nbsp;2023&nbsp;in a bid to calm protests around the country as a fractured&nbsp;Congress&nbsp;has repeatedly failed to come to an agreement after weeks of political&nbsp;infighting.
The&nbsp;bill, seen by Reuters, proposes holding&nbsp;congressional and&nbsp;presidential&nbsp;elections in October this year with elected officials taking power in late December. Elected officials would serve a five year term until July 2028.
The Andean country is in the grip of some eight weeks of anti-government protests with 48 people killed in clashes between demonstrators and security forces, mostly in&nbsp;Peru's copper-rich south. Fast&nbsp;new&nbsp;elections has been a key demand of protesters after former left-wing&nbsp;President&nbsp;Pedro Castillo was ousted in December.
The&nbsp;new&nbsp;bill&nbsp;comes after a series of early&nbsp;elections proposals have failed in&nbsp;Congress, including one on Wednesday after days of closed door negotiations failed to yield a consensus, with fragmented political parties unable to agree on how to move forward despite widespread public support for a snap vote.
Some right-wing members are opposed to having their terms cut short, while left-wing factions have said they will not support a&nbsp;bill&nbsp;unless it also includes a non-binding referendum for a&nbsp;new&nbsp;constitution.
Boluarte, Castillo's former deputy who took over after he tried to illegally dissolve&nbsp;Congress, announced plans for&nbsp;bills for snap&nbsp;elections and a constitutional rewrite over the weekend after violent protests in the capital that left one dead.
Peru&nbsp;Libre, Castillo's party, submitted a&nbsp;bill&nbsp;for early&nbsp;elections and a non-binding referendum for a&nbsp;new&nbsp;constitution that was voted down Thursday night.
Prime Minister Alberto Otarola is scheduled to present the executive branch's&nbsp;bill&nbsp;to a&nbsp;congressional commission on Friday afternoon.
Protesters around&nbsp;Peru&nbsp;have blocked highways with trees, boulders and tires, taken over regional airports and burned buildings, impacting goods transport, business and the operation of some key mines in the world's No. 2 copper producer.
(Reporting by Alexander Villegas; Editing by&nbsp;Bill&nbsp;Berkrot)

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