Yessenia Lozano, who called herself the “political daughter” of the owner of Alianza para el Progreso, Cesar Acunaand became head of the Center for Training Modalities of the Congress of the Republic without meeting the requirements, aspires to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the general elections of 2026. She appears in the list of apepist pre-candidates for the department of Lima.
Jaqueline Yessenia Lozano Millones, it is recalled, is a leader of Alianza para el Progreso where she serves as national secretary of Youth.
Last April, a program report Fourth Estate He realized that he was head of the Parliament’s Center for Training Modalities despite not meeting the requirements.
This office was created in June 2023 with the purpose, according to the standard, of providing pre-professional and professional internships in Parliament for a maximum duration of one non-renewable year. However, the journalistic investigation determined that said office—in which a huge painting with the image of the founder of APP was displayed—was used as a kind of party annex because there Lozano received a series of authorities and militants from his group.
At that time, Lozano only had a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Universidad del Señor de Sipán, owned by the Acuña family, and he earned a monthly salary of more than 19 thousand soles.
In May, a month after the journalistic complaint against the apepista became known, the Second Corporate Provincial Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Officials of Lima, headed by the provincial deputy prosecutor Djanira Ajalcriña Cáceres, opened an investigation against “those who are responsible for the crime of incompatible negotiation” due to their “allegedly irregular” designation.
Before, in 2020, she served as an advisor to the then APP congressman Freddy Díaz Monago, who is currently serving a sentence of 13 years and 4 months for the crime of sexual rape against a worker in his office. She was then appointed advisor to the coinage bench with a salary of S/ 12,663.
Despite the questions, Lozano Millones remained head of the Center for Training Modalities until last August, when her duties were terminated. Sandra Gutiérrez Cuba, a member of the Somos Perú party, was appointed to replace her.
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