Professionals and members of the Lima Bar Association (CAL) will choose today, Sunday, by vote, his representative before the National Elections Jury (JNE). This process can be completed after Raul Chaname Orb left that vacancy in July 2020 and the election was paralyzed to cover it due to protection problems against the CAL directive.
There are seven candidates who apply to fill that position: José Villalobos Campana, Mercedes Morocho Arias, Javier Arias Serrano, Willy Ramírez Chávarry, Vilma Martínez Huamani, Jorge Jáuregui Mendieta and Enrique López Zurita.
Villalobos, executive director of the Peruvian Institute of Electoral Law (IPDE), maintained that in the general elections of 2021 Popular Force did not provide evidence of “fraud”. He affirmed to our media that he was the nephew of Dina Boluarte and added that “the government is not applying for me, I do it by popular will… I haven’t seen her for many years and she hasn’t called me”.
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Ramírez told RPP that there was no fraud in the elections, however he said that “The absence of our representative meant that, in the event of a tie vote, the president of the JNE makes use of the casting vote and that has generated a lot of doubt or suspicion”.
Morocho mentioned that the one “who enters the JNE must be someone who has no ties to political parties.” In one of his Facebook posts, the lawyer Javier Villa-Steinwho unsuccessfully filed an injunction not to recognize the 2021 electoral results, supported his candidacy.
Jáuregui also had a position against the “fraud” version. “There was a lot of misinformation on networks when there was talk of fraud and there was not a single proof of it,” he said. He also highlighted the importance of “an agenda for modernizing electoral justice.”
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Arias told the medium Señal Abierta: “I am not an Aprista, but I do have to respect the validity of a party that for years has stood for democracy.”
Lastly, Martínez proposed proposing a constitutional reform so that the head of the JNE is not a member of the PJ and López suggested an “efficient electoral reform” in his networks.
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An attempt to thwart the election came from the Pasco Bar Association. your dean German Loyola filed an amparo action to suspend it, but it was rejected on February 24.
