Congressman Flavio Cruz asks that Vladimir Cerrón participates in the 2026 elections

Despite what Vladimir Cerrón Rojas He has been fugitive from justice for 700 days, the parliamentarian of Free Peru, Flavio Cruz, He publicly asked to let the leader of his party participate in the 2026 elections.

The head of state announced that the creation of the El Frontón prison would be a way of facing the inmates who extort and commit crimes within prisons. This lack of control would be solved with this new penitentiary center; However, specialists denies it.

“We want him to participate. I think he has the right to participate, and that hopefully the authorities, especially judicial ones, now that they have it tied there, they can release it, leave it, let it participate. We have our ideals,” was what mentioned the media Flavio Cruz when they asked who the party candidate would be.

The legislator of Free Peru He said in the same conversation that Cerrón is not convicted of any crime and that he is completely “innocent”, he also denied that the head of his party is a fugitive from justice. All this despite the fact that Vladimir Cerrón has an order of preventive detention against him in the case the dynamics of the center.

“He is not a fugitive. In the journalistic and political business, Vale (the term fugitive), but technically a fugitive is one that has a current, firm sentence, and Dr. Vladimir Cerrón does not have. That is, it has been, I think, innocent in the case of the airfield (Wanka). Innocent, not even null, innocent,” said the congressman.

Despite that, he did not deny that Cerrón Rojas has an order against him today. “What it has is the preventive detention of the other case of dynamics. So, hopefully that declines and letting us participate. Let us participate, gamme us on the court,” said Flavio Cruz.

CERRÓN CASE

The former regional governor of Junín and leader of the Peru Libre party, Vladimír Cerrón, turns a year and nine months evading Peruvian justice. Despite the current capture orders and the activity that it maintains on social networks, its whereabouts remains unknown to the authorities.

In March 2025, the Supreme Court of Justice acquitted it of the Wankka Aerodrome case, for which it had been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2023. However, this decision did not mean its freedom, since in December 2024 a court issued 18 months of preventive detention against him for the Antalsis case, where he is investigated for alleged aggravated collusion.

In addition, the Judiciary has expanded the investigation against him in the case known as “the dynamics of the center”, in which he is accused of leading a criminal organization that operated in Junín.