5 t) On May 19, 1997, the President of the Congress summoned justices Aguirre Roca, Rey Terry and Revoredo Marsano de Mur to the May 23 session, to state their arguments before the Congressional Permanent Commission; u) On May 28, 1997, Congress adopted legislative decisions Nos. 002-97CR, 003-97-CR and 004-97-CR, wherein it resolved to remove justices Manuel Aguirre Roca, Guillermo Rey Terry and Delia Revoredo Marsano de Mur from the bench of the Constitutional Court, and v) On June 25, 1997, Justice Manuel Aguirre Roca filed a petition a writ of amparo against the decision to remove him from the bench. Guillermo Rey Terry and Delia Revoredo Marsano de Mur followed August 1, 1997. Those petitions were declared unfounded in published in the El Peruano official gazette on September 25, 1998. seeking Justices suit on rulings III PROCEEDINGS WITH THE COMMISSION 3. On June 2, 1997, the Inter-American Commission received a petition signed by 26 deputies in Peru’s National Congress concerning the removal of the justices from the bench of the Constitutional Court. On July 16 of that year, the Commission began to process that petition, forwarding the pertinent parts thereof to the State with the request that it supply information relevant to the matter. 4. On October 16, 1997, Peru presented a report prepared by the National Human Rights Council (Communication No. 1858-97-JUS/CNDH-SE) wherein it requested that the Commission declare the petition inadmissible “inasmuch as the petitioners [had] not exhaust[ed] local remedies.” 5. On October 21, 1997, the Commission forwarded that report to the petitioners and requested that they present any comments they might have within 30 days. 6. The Commission convoked a public hearing for February 25, 1998, during its 98th session, to hear arguments from the parties concerning the petition’s admissibility. 7. On April 30, 1998, the petitioners requested that the Commission find the petition admissible. That same day, the Commission informed the State of that request. 8. On May 5, 1998, during its 99th special session, the Commission approved the Report on the Admissibility of Petition No. 35/98. There, it concluded that “inasmuch as the exceptions provided for in Article 46(2)(c) of the Convention applied in the instant case, the local remedies need not be exhausted for the Commission to be competent to take up this petition.” That report was forwarded to Peru and to the petitioners on December 11, 1998. 9. On June 29, 1998, the Commission placed itself at the disposition of the parties for purposes of a friendly settlement in accordance with Article 48(1)(f) of the American Convention.