Another congressman? Guido Bellido of the Podemos Peru bench, would have used resources from Congress to promote his new political party called ‘Pueblo Consciente’. Last August, the legislator was in the middle of a representation week with a ticket paid for by the Congress of the Republic in the province of Ayacucho; However, in the same week he also appears in photos and videos of the event surrounded by members of his party.
“It’s been amazing, I haven’t gone to the meeting, I’ve been returning and on the way they asked me to talk to them for a while and we talked. On the way, it’s like I’m walking to my office, I see you and I greet you (…) They invited me but it took a while, what’s the problem there? (…) I have to say hello,” he told the Panorama journalist.
After his explanation, the social media page of ‘Pueblo Consciente’ deleted the publication where Congressman Bellido appeared dressed in a brown poncho and streamers around his neck. Panorama was able to access the document of the expenses of August 10 and that trip cost the State the amount of 1,129 soles.
This is not the first time that a congressman misuses state resources.
José Cevasco, former senior congressional official, believes that this happens often, cases of congressmen using state resources for personal and political purposes. Isabel Cortez ‘Chabelita’, Pasión Dávila and Flor Pablo There are some legislators who have presented similar cases before.
“We have already heard that song several times, it is difficult, I was passing by and I found the event and I entered the event and oh surprise there is also my gigantography, there is my photograph but it is a coincidence. The correct thing is to say no because it is It goes only for parliamentary activities,” he said.
For his part, Eduardo Herrera, director of the Private Anti-Corruption Council, also said that it is an increasingly recurring bad practice in the Congress of the Republic.
“Well, this is already becoming a custom as well as the ‘mochasaldos’ and there will always be a way out, an argument, surely totally unbalanced to justify, the point is that this is a throwback to the law,” he explained.
Isabel Cortez also used money from Congress to promote her party
In the month of May it was learned that ‘Chabelita’, as the congresswoman is known, had promoted her political party, the Partido Obrero del Perú, while she was in representation week in the province of Huancavelica. This trip was financed with resources from the Congress. That time, Cortez tried to justify himself by saying that it was the unions that had organized it and the trip responded to that invitation to discuss problems.
