Located in North Lima, the district of Independence concentrates a commercial axis of imported and exported products of massive flow. Due to its heavy traffic of supplies, it is an area marked by the delinquency: In 2021 alone there were 5,036 property crimes, according to a recent report by the Legal Defense Institute (IDL).
Each Serenazgo officer must take care of the safety of 1,292 civilians, while each police officer, with four police stations available, protects the peace of 778 people.
Being the third district of Lima Norte with the most crimes reported in 2021, for the next elections the voters will have to discern between eight candidates for the commune. Two of them, according to information from the anti-corruption prosecutors and the Public Ministry, would have pending accounts with the Prosecutor’s Office.
Who are the candidates for mayor of Independencia and what do they propose?
Alfredo Reynaga Ramírez – We are Peru
The candidate for Somos Perú for mayor of Independencia, Alfredo Reynaga Ramírez (58), is an economist and has a master’s degree in Administration and Social Management.
Until 2017 he belonged to Peru Possible, a party founded by Alejandro Toledo, investigated for crimes of influence peddling, collusion and money laundering. After that first registration, he spent three years in Peru Patria Segura.
In his resume published in the National Elections Jury (JNE) he records a food lawsuit filed against him.
Reynaga Ramírez is allegedly accused of the crime of embezzlement (file 153-2012) and improper collection (file 6134-2018). The first process is in the trial stage and the second is in appeal.
Proposals:
- Citizen insecurity: it is hoped that Serenazgo and Control staff will be trained to serve citizens with a gender approach, territorial targeting and handling of dissuasive weapons.
- Poor coordination spaces: it is proposed to provide advice to neighborhood organizations, as well as give support to people with disabilities.
- Informality: encourage the formalization process while strengthening merchant organizations.
Gregorio Bernardino Quispe Alvino – Podemos Peru
The head of the list for Podemos Peru for the mayor’s office of Independencia, Gregorio Bernardino Quispe Alvino (47), was a district councilor from 2011 to 2014 with the Popular Christian Party (PPC), the one founded by Luis Bedoya Reyes, of nascent social-Christian ideals that ended in alliance with Alanism. Quispe resigned from the group a year before the end of his mandate.
He was also registered with Somos Perú until 2021, according to his publicly accessible resume.
Gregorio Quispe has a complaint for the alleged crime of embezzlement (file 3620-2016) in the current intermediate stage.
Proposals:
- Citizen insecurity: 100% of district zonal axes with permanent integrated patrolling.
- Weak management of public resources: three spaces for citizen participation “as a means for the solution”.
- Lack of job opportunities: 100 people trained per year for the development of their enterprises.
Benigno Roberto Calderón Arones – Popular Renewal
A psychologist by profession, Benigno Roberto Calderón Arones (58) is applying for the office of the commune of Independencia for the party whose summoned death of President Pedro Castillo and maintains a coercive debt with the National Superintendency of Tax Administration (Sunat) for 35,533,649 soles. Indeed, Renovación Popular —the continuation of National Solidarity— by Rafael López Aliaga has Calderón as its candidate, an absentee in income from goods and income.
In the partisan sphere, he belonged to the political group that intends to continue the legacy of the former president convicted of crimes against humanity, Alberto Fujimori, and joined the ranks headed by the investor in higher education and recently reported for the alleged commission of the crime of criminal organization, influence peddling, simple and aggravated collusion, fraudulent embezzlement to the detriment of the State, César Acuña.
Both groups disaffiliated in 2021.
Proposals:
- Lack of health care coverage: promote the “integrated preventive health system” for work in the sectors with the least resources and cover 85% of people.
- High rate of corruption in municipal management: implementation of ISO 37001 anti-corruption, having “honesty” as a priority and management policy.
- High rate of unemployed youth: creation of the “municipal employment center” and the “business development center” as entities for the sustainability of companies with training.
Jose Elgar Espejo Cárdenas – Free Peru
Number 1 on the perulibrista list for the district of Independencia, the administrator Jose Elgar Espejo Cárdenas (45) was sued twice by his family for food. For the first, the single-person criminal court, based in Las Flores, San Juan de Lurigancho, ruled against him. Espejo Cárdenas records in the JNE that he served his sentence. For the second there was a council between the parties.
Proposals:
- Delinquency, drug addiction and prostitution: action plan with the Serenazgo, neighborhood councils and the support of the National Police to reduce the three aforementioned problems by 5%.
- Extreme poverty: create temporary work centers for unemployed people, young people with low economic resources, etc., to reduce the poverty rate.
- Support for the repair of educational centers in poor condition.
Evans Rodolfo Sifuentes Ocaña – Alliance for Progress
Economist Evans Rodolfo Sifuentes Ocaña (58) reoffends. He was twice mayor for the district he is now running for (2011-2014 and 2015-2018).
It is also not a fixed of political stores. In each electoral campaign he postulates with a new group. If before he was from the PPC and after National Solidarity, now he is from the Alliance for Progress.
In 2001, after facing a family lawsuit for alimony, she divorced her spouse. She had to transfer a pension to her descendants, but she defaulted.
As a result, 11 years later, the Second Mixed Court of Ate ordered compliance with the agreement.
Proposals:
- Provide food to social programs: cover 100% of social food programs.
- Lack of confidence from private investors: build confidence among private investors for 80% local development.
- Poor green areas service: increase the perception of improvement of green areas to 80%.
Adolfo Cesar Tuya Herrera – Purple Party
The lawyer Adolfo César Tuya Herrera (43) worked in the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) as a legal assistant from 2012 to 2020. Since then he has worked in his own litigation firm.
In 2019, he joined the Purple Party as District Secretary of Independence. In the next elections he leads the list of the party that defines itself as “of the center”.
Proposals:
- Number of students with special needs in public institutions: 30% extension of coverage to 2026 for Regular Basic Education students.
- Citizen insecurity: crime prevention and fight against violence inside and outside the home.
- Economic stability and tax policy: advance of 18% to 2026.
Henrry Alejandro Álvarez Jacinto – Advance Country
the party that orphaned the economist and advisor to former dictators Hernando De Soto presents Henrry Alejandro Álvarez Jacinto (51) as a candidate for the Municipality of Independencia.
In the electoral platform of the JNE that Álvarez had to fill out until June 14, 2022, the candidate does not present technical or university studies; however, he registers a total annual income of S / 13,700 for a job that he has had since 2014 as an administrator.
According to the RUC of Fusiones Peruanas EIRL, the main activity of the company is “the service of beverages” and the secondary “manufacturing of other food products”.
Proposals:
- Prevalence of anemia in childhood: reduce the rate in children aged 0 to 3 years.
- Digital municipal government: promote the digitization of services and attention to the citizen, as well as strengthen the administrative management system.
- Absence of advice to generate investment: offer qualified advice to generate conditions of opportunity and competitiveness.
Maritza Atila Valdivia Carbajal – Patriotic Party of Peru
In principle, Maritza Atila Valdivia Carbajal (40) was going to compete to be in the communal office, but the JNE declared her application inadmissible. In her absence, the lawyer Sandra Gutierrez Aibar (43), first councilor for the Patriotic Party of Peru, occupies the place.
The candidate recorded in her resume that she has been working as an independent for two years. She served the municipality that she now aspires to preside over, the regional government of Callao, “among other private companies.”
In these adventures, he declared in 2021 to have received a total of S / 66,674 between the private and public sectors.
Proposals:
- Inadequate housing conditions: reduce the percentage of the population without access to protection services, as well as manage the physical and legal sanitation of all homes in Independencia.
- Informal economy with precarious working conditions: implementation of a multisectoral local policy designed to transform economic activity towards formal work.
- High vulnerability to climate change: creation of an urban and peripheral tree afforestation program. Start planting more than 20,000 trees.
Observation
The electoral platform of the JNE was consulted for the district municipal list for Popular Force Independence and even after four attempts the result was the same: non-existent.
Missing information from the party of the Fujimori dynasty. Photo: capture.
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