The pnext Sunday October 2more than 25 million Peruvians will go to elect regional governors and mayors, in an electoral campaign where candidates prosecuted for serious homicides, money laundering, drug trafficking, rape and physical abuse have prevailed throughout the country.
In Lima, the favorites to be mayor are the former Minister of the Interior and former military officer, Daniel Urrestiwho is facing trial for indirect responsibility in the homicide during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000 of the journalist Hugo Bustios; businessman Rafael Lopez Aliagawho is prosecuted by the prosecution for money laundering through his company that was associated with the metropolitan bank during the management of the former mayor of Lima, Susana Villaranalso prosecuted for corruption.
IDL reporters revealed that after the Panama Papers leaks it was found that the far-right politician’s companies Rafael Lopez Aliaga they have profitable transactions with the administration of the leftist politician, Susana Villarán (2010-2014).
According to the investigation portal, the Prosecutor’s Office detected “an unusual increase in assets” of Rafael López Aliaga linked to payments of more than 3.8 million euros and that, according to the prosecution, has not supported “in any way the origin of said possible payments” .
The candidate for mayor of Lima, Daniel Urresti, who is the favorite in the polls, faces a trial for mediate homicide that could cause him to be sentenced to prison and replace him as deputy mayor of Lima, the former congressman, Jose Luna Moralesinvestigated in the prosecution for being part of the organization “Political Gangsters” for having paid thousands of soles to register the “Podemos Peru” party.
denounced by his son
Another of the candidates for mayor of Lima, Gonzalo Alegría -son of the writer, Ciro Alegría- of the left-wing party, Together for Peru, was denounced by his own son for physical violence and harassment, as revealed by Nativa Television. Alegría’s explosive response was to deny the facts, then he had to admit the complaint against him and ended up accusing his own son of receiving a payment of 100,000 euros and being a follower of the Spanish party Vox to “end his political career” because “he confronts the great business power» of Peru.
The Mohme Foundation published that according to the anti-corruption prosecutors and prosecutors; A total of 2,706 candidates for regional governors, councilors, mayors or aldermen participating in the 2022 elections at the national level report ongoing investigations or processes for alleged acts related to corruption.
«There is a crisis of representation in the parties and the citizens who choose among what there is, often choose between the least bad»
For the head of the International IDEA Mission for Peru, Percy Medina; this fact reveals «the crisis of political parties in Peru, which have no filters nor are they spaces for the generation of cadres or the construction of political trajectories. In the midst of a very poor political offer, it is up to the citizenry to differentiate.
“There is a crisis of representation in the parties and the citizens who choose among what there is, often choose among the least bad,” concluded Medina.
The more budget, the more candidates convicted
The Proética organization analyzed the three regions with the largest budget due to the mining canon: Cuzco, Cajamarca and Áncash. In Cuzcothe region has a budget of 200 million euros and fourteen people are running for regional governors, of which two are facing legal proceedings: advocacy of terrorism and corruption in the form of theft of public funds.
Cajamarca it has a budget of more than 70 million euros and eight candidates are running for regional governors and one of them is under arrest for a preliminary investigation for the crimes of theft of public funds. Another of the candidates for the regional government of Cajamarca owes the State 7 million euros for the crimes of theft from the State and illicit association to commit a crime.
in the district of Saint Mark, located in the province of Huari in Ancash, received in 2013, 80 million euros. They postulate 16 candidates where one of them has a conviction for manslaughter and another has a sentence for the crime of collusion. Another candidate seeking re-election was arrested by the police with 47 thousand soles in cash whose origin could not be clearly explained.
According to the latest survey by the Institute of Peruvian Studies, the leader who most represents Peruvians at the national level is “None”, who obtains 50 percent; followed in second place by “Don’t know/Don’t think” which gets 18 percent; in third place, the president «Pedro Castillo» obtains 6 percent; Antauro Humala gets 4 percent; they are tied at 3 percent; Rafael Lopez Aliaga, Keiko Sofía Fujimori and former President Martin Vizcarra; Lastly, there is former president Francisco Sagasti, Hernando de Soto and George Forsyth with 2 percent.
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