The ONPE chief confirms that this entity has collaborated with the investigative commission and will continue to do so. He asks that at the end of this group’s period the sessions be made public.
Congressman Montoya has said that they have been “reluctant” to provide information. What can you answer?
I am sorry to have to correct Congressman Montoya’s fallacious statements. There are dozens of trades that the commission has sent and they have been fully answered in due time. I have attended the two appointments that were made to me. We have been asked to have access to a set of information. We have had to adapt a space so that the staff they have assigned can go to review the thousands of minutes and copies that are in our possession in the Antares archive. The members of the commission were absent from January 13 for different reasons. They have only reviewed 8.08% of the documents for the 2021 general elections and 9.21% for the second round.
They indicate that they seek to “expose” what happened…
They can investigate four months or five years and they will not find anything. There are no irregularities here, there is no fraud. Fraud is the speech of the lie of those who lost an election and do not want to admit their failure. I would have loved for these interviews to have been public, for us to be able to see what each congressman asks and what each authority answers. Unfortunately the commission chose why not. I have to categorically deny, I have said that we are going to collaborate, we have collaborated and we will continue to collaborate with this and with all the commissions.
So you were summoned twice…
And I confess that in the first one they didn’t even attend to me. Doctor Salas Arenas and I were summoned on the same day and at the same time. I had to wait three and a quarter hours and they didn’t even attend me. When they invited us again, we attended because we are the most interested in everyone being convinced that the election has been clean and transparent.
Have other ONPE officials been summoned?
The subpoenas in Congress by civil code should be given at least three days before, and last week they sent Friday night to go on Tuesday. On the same Tuesday, they again told the two officials to go and we insisted that they will attend when they are summoned with due anticipation. Surely when the week of representation is over they will be summoned and will attend in a timely manner.
Does the argument that there were claims justify the commission’s continuation?
I greatly respect the oversight role of Congress, however, many months have passed and we have no news in this regard. That there are many complaints about something does not justify an investigation. What remains between Peruvians is to reconcile, accept the results.
They ask for transparency and they don’t give it. There is contradiction.
Respect for its own operation and expenses that may arise. What I would dare to ask is that, for transparency, once the commission and its mandate are over, they can make public the videos of the sessions. The citizen deserves it, it is a sensitive issue. ❖
