The Venice Commission has previously expressed the view that judges should not be subject to political impeachment, because it exposes them to undue interference by parliament. However, the interlocutors of the Commission delegation in Peru, including academics and civil society activists, took it almost for granted and did not challenge this legal instrument as such. Having acknowledged however that impeachment of judges is an accepted feature of certain democratic systems in the Americas, the Commission, while maintaining its position that it represents a potential, if not an actual threat to the independence of the judges, wishes to underline that, to align with the standards of independence of the judiciary, the procedure of impeachment of members of the JNE by the Congress, if it is introduced, should meet certain requirements.