In the first speech of Lopez Aliaga, who called himself Porky, the cartoon pig, asked that President Pedro Castillo “take refuge so that they do not persecute him.” More than 24 million Peruvians elected mayors and regional governors this Sunday in a process where the fact that stands out the most is the judicial processes that the winners go through where the exception to the rule is not being investigated for corruption, drug trafficking, money laundering, homicides , among other crimes.
“Let him (Pedro Castillo) take refuge in a country so that they do not persecute him and that he leave the country in peace. And that there be a president of consensus », indicated the new mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, who considers that Sunday’s election was a referendum of approval of the Government of Pedro Castillo and that his victory is a sign of the disapproval of the.
Rafael López Aliaga announced that he will not meet with President Pedro Castillo to coordinate the projects for Lima, the capital of Peru. «It is not possible, structurally it is impossible. Because of the destruction it has done to the Peruvian economy,” he said.
López Aliaga directs the far-right party, Popular Renovation, that according to the National Office of Electoral Processes, ONPE, won the mayor’s office of Lima by 26.2 percent and left in second place, the former Minister of the Interior, Daniel Urresti. López Aliaga’s party also won the mayoralties in twelve districts of Lima, where those with the highest income in the country are located.
President Pedro Castillo, for his part, pointed out that “the Government is fully willing to work together. The population does not eat speeches, it does not feed on ideologies or criticism, the people need to have a penny in their pocket.
perpetual celibacy
Rafael López Aliaga is an extreme right-wing businessman who belongs to Opus Dei and who has declared himself perpetually celibate and who applied for the presidency in 2021, where I am third in the presidential campaign and from that moment began the path to run for mayor of Lima.
López Aliaga is an admirer of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and former president Donald Trump. Renovación Popular has a bench of nine congressmen, of which the ex-marine, Jorge Montoya, presented a vacancy petition to Castillo, which was not approved by the Legislature. The first petition against Castillo was filed by Patricia Chirinos and was also unsuccessful.
«There are many things about Bolsonaro that I like for Peru (…) Bolsonaro defends families to the letter, that is, he goes against total abortion, and we are in favor of the life of every human being. He is in favor of the family, he is in favor of the defense of children, so that boys with boys, girls with girls, are not kissing, “said López Aliaga during the presidential campaign.
Lima, a world power
Lima has more than twelve million inhabitants and faces serious traffic, cleanliness and security problems. Among the promises of López Aliaga are the construction of a large highway that joins the districts of San Isidro and Villa el Salvador; the construction of a cable car system that connects San Juan de Lurigancho and Comas (northern Lima), the creation of a municipal army to prevent crimes and the most striking of its promises: “Turn Lima into a world power.”
“It is clear that, above all, in the highest socioeconomic districts, the support for Rafael López Aliaga and Renovación Popular speaks of an important sector of the citizenry that has sought a candidate with the characteristics of Lopez Aliaga: someone who probably belongs to their sector. and that it is more in line with the political positions they have, above all, in relation to the national government,” lawyer and political scientist Paulo Vilca told the ‘Ojo Público’ portal.
«The situation is more heterogeneous than it is intended to say. When it is said that Lima is conservative, it would be necessary to see which Lima is the most conservative”, concluded Vilca.
Last week, IDL reporters revealed that after the Panama Papers leaks it was found that the companies of far-right politician Rafael López Aliaga have profitable transactions with the administration of leftist politics, Susana Villaran (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” .
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