Pedro Castillo announced that Antauro Igor Humala Tasso will run for the Senate as a candidate for political organization Together with the People. The former president issued the statement through his social networks in which he presents Humala as part of the National Parliamentary List with number 9.
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“Today I want to salute the political and programmatic adhesion of compatriot Antauro Igor Humala Tasso to the Political Alliance Together with the People. His participation in the National Parliamentary List as a senator, with number 9, adds to the deep, patriotic and democratic desire of millions of men and women who fight tirelessly for the freedom and democratization of Peru,” it reads.
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“I am sure that, together with the leaders of all the peoples, with whom we share this political project, we will recover the government of the people, democracy and the rule of law, for the good of all Peruvians,” he adds.
It is worth remembering that Antauro Humala He had previously expressed his intention to negotiate a place on a Senate list, because his own political movement does not have a valid electoral registration after being declared illegal by the Judiciary.
“Our position, first in the change in the programmatic aspect, Constituent Assembly. And now, in the aspect, let’s say, purely mechanically electoral, let’s put it this way, we are asking the Senate for number one (…). Obviously, we are not going to ask for number 34. So, that is our request. This is under discussion, it is under evaluation,” he declared on Rosa María Palacios’ Sin Guion program.
Pedro Castillo cannot apply for public office
On the other hand, Pedro Castillo He has a sentence of 11 years, 5 months and 15 days of effective prison for the crime of conspiracy to rebel for the attempt to dissolve Congress on December 7, 2022. The court considered that the crime of rebellion in its maximum expression was not configured, but conspiracy to subvert the constitutional order, for which it imposed a custodial sentence and two years of disqualification from holding public office.
Castillo’s legal conviction and political disqualification mean that he cannot run for public office, which makes his political intervention even more notable through endorsements and statements on social networks and public events.
