He Mayor of Lima, Rafael Lopez Aliaga, and the Governor of La Libertad, Cesar Acuñastand out in the iAuthorized revocation initiatives. So far it has been approved 572 kits or packages of forms throughout the country which aim to remove 16 top regional authorities and 79 provincial mayorsas well as hundreds of district mayors, regional councillors and aldermen.
For López Aliaga, there are four kits authorized by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE). Among the mayors of departmental capitals of the country, he is the one who faces more initiatives citizens of revocation.
For Acuña, there are also four kitspackages of forms delivered to those promoting his dismissal. He is a political leader close to the Dina Boluarte regime is he regional governor with the most recall attempts.
The regional governors of ArequipaRohel Sánchez, with three kits, and with two those of the CallaoCiro Castillo Rojo; CuscoWerner Salcedo; FistRichard Hancco; AncashKoki Noriega; and HuancavelicaLeoncio Huayllán.
The regional governors of LimeRosa Vasquez; AyacuchoWilfredo Oscorima; LambayequeJorge Perez; IcaJorge Hurtado; PiuraLuis Neyra; JuninZozimo Cardenas; LoretoRene Chavez; ApurimacPercy Godoy; and AmazonGilmer Horna.
However, having several recall kits may favor the authority in question because divide the collection of signatures.
Strategy for firms
In Lima, Ciro Silva, promoter against Lopez Aliagasays he has more than 200,000 signatures and needs 1,900,000 until October 11 to be submitted to the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) for verification. He announced that he will intensify the collection.
“We are going to gather more in firmathons, intensive days of harvesting in different places. I hope that other initiatives will join us,” says Silva.
Lía Valderrama, another promoter of López Aliaga’s recall, says that she has distributed 50,000 forms to various groups to ask for signatures and that she is working with social organizations affected by the mayor, such as those fired by the municipality and sex workers. She adds that the Purple Party has joined in and that she is in dialogue with other political groups.
In Callao, Yogo Carranza, promoter of Castillo Rojo’s recallaccount More than 25,000 signatures and needs 200,000. Last Friday, he presented theCallao leaders who join their initiativeseveral had collaborated with the authority that they now want to remove, like himself.
“He has betrayed Callao, He was shown to us as someone who wanted to work for the city, but there is a lot of inefficiency and corruption allegations. More and more people from Callao are joining the recall because we cannot continue like this, the population is affected,” he said. He also said that the other kit buyer, Carlos Apaza, has joined his group.
In La Libertad, Wilfredo Díaz, promoter of the recall of Acuñaplans to strengthen its initiative, in which it adds 35,000 signatures “in 20 days” and requires 350,000, because the regional branch of the CGTP (General Confederation of Workers of Peru), which groups together important unions critical of the governor, has joined in.
“The recall is growing. Of the other promoters, one of them, Rudy Gonzalez, has joined us. The population is dissatisfied with the inefficiency in managementin addition to the fact that he is not fulfilling what he promised and also because Acuña is not here in La Libertad, he seems to want to be more interested in his business,” he says.
The strength of the south
In Arequipa, Harold Rodriguez, promoter of the recall of Governor Sanchezsays that until now he has some 58,000 signatures and that he needs 290,000 for the recall process, but he points out that he has proposed to present 350,000 signatures. He adds that he called the others who received kits and that one, Carlos Tejada, has been added to him.
“The population supports us because of the inefficiency of the governor and for the betrayal in the Majes-Siguas transfer to the Government. There is also Tía María, because we have been in the Tambo valley. In addition, we remember that Rohel went from questioning Boluarte for the repression to validating it and appearing alongside her. The population feels betrayed“, he says.
In it Cusco, Antonio Cornejo, promoter of the recall of Salcedoclaims that he has More than 70,000 signatures collected “in one month and in one place” and have already begun to decentralize with committeesFor your region, you need to achieve at least 263,059 signatures.
“We have surpassed 20%. By the end of September we must achieve the goal. The people of Cusco are signing for the inability of the administration, the failure to keep its promises and its surrender policy. In addition, there are illegal hirings and 104 meetings with Boluarte without benefit for Cusco. On the contrary, they handed over Machu Picchu and as president of the assembly of governors, he signed a pact of governance with Boluarte. It was worse,” he says. ❖
