In Callao, the regional government must still be defined in the second electoral round between the engineer Miguel Cordano and the doctor Ciro Castillo Rojobut the provincial mayor’s office and most of the district mayors were won by Pedro Spadaro, current local mayor, and the candidates of his political group, with just one exception.
Cordano, from the Contigo Callao political movement, and Ciro Castillo Rojo, from Más Callao, are still in competition after receiving 28.4% and 24.3% of the valid votes, according to the results of the ONPE (National Office of Electoral Processes), which qualify them for the ballot, the first that will have to be done in the Chalacos region.
Cordano has been an advisor to the Chalaco Regional Government in the current management, by Dante Mandriotti, and president of the Technical Corps of Appraisals of Peru. He is the cousin of Óscar Medelius, a former Fujimori congressman questioned for the forgery of former President Alberto Fujimori’s signatures in 2000 and a lawyer close to Mandriotti.
with you Callao It is led by Spadaro, mayor of the Chalaco district of Ventanilla, the second most populous in the province, and a former Fujimori congressman.
Castillo Rojo was an official in the efforts of Félix Moreno and Juan Sotomayor, former leaders of the Chimpum movement. Before, he had been known for the tragedy of his son, who died in the Colca canyon, in Arequipa.
More Callao It is led by Omar Marcos, who was mayor of Ventanilla with Chimpum and ran for the same position this time without success. In 2018, under the name of Fuerza Chalaca, he nominated Marcos to the provincial municipality and Spadaro to Ventanilla. He only managed to win the second.
Mayors
With you Callao already won the provincial mayor’s office, with Spadaro, who had 29.4% of the valid votes, according to ONPE with 95.8% of records counted, and almost all district ones: Ventanilla, with Jhovinson Vásquez (28.5%); Bellavista, with Álex Callán (22.5%); La Perla, with Rodolfo Adrianzén (19.7%); Carmen de La Legua-Reynoso, with Edwards Infante (30.1%); and La Punta, with Ramón Garay (42.4%).
Only in the Chalaco district of Mi Perú did a candidate from another political organization win the mayoralty: Irvin Chávez, from Alliance for Progress (40.4%).
In the provincial mayoral contest, the ONPE count gave 154,399 votes to Spadaro at the closing of this note. Meanwhile, it registered 94,841 invalid votes and that 176,654 chalacos had not cast their vote.
Infographic-The Republic
