Congressman Jorge Montoya will run for the Senate with Carlos Espá's Sí Creo party

The congressman Jorge Montoya announced that for the 2026 elections he will run for the Senate with the Sí Creo party, which has Carlos Espá as its presidential candidate.

In this edition number 2 of Desayuno Electoral, Valerie Vásquez de Velasco and Mayra Calderón talk with Carlos Espá, presidential candidate of the Sí Creo party, about his entry into politics, his proposals and his vision for the country.

This candidacy confirms the rapprochement between both politicians who last September were captured having breakfast at a restaurant in Miraflores.

“I take on this challenge with the serenity that experience gives and the firmness that the country’s moment demands. I am running for the National Senate with Yes I Believe, with a clear conviction: Peru needs order, security and unambiguous decisions,” the parliamentarian published on his social networks.

“We travel this path with leadership and vision for the country, together with Carlos Espá, president, consolidating a firm proposal to recover authority, institutionality and direction,” he added.

I take on this challenge with the serenity that comes from experience and the firmness that the country’s moment demands.
I am running for the National Senate with Yes I Believe, with a clear conviction: Peru needs order, security and unambiguous decisions.

We travel this path with leadership and vision… pic.twitter.com/H25PHoZfBT

— Jorge Montoya 🇵🇪⚓️ (@Alm_Montoya) December 24, 2025

As recalled, the retired admiral arrived in Parliament in 2021 with the Popular Renewal party, whose leader is Rafael López Aliaga; However, last year he resigned from the political organization due to irreconcilable differences with the latter.

At the beginning of the year, the then prosecutor of the Nation, Delia Espinoza, filed a constitutional complaint against Montoya and other congressmen with a military past for “having taken an undue and direct interest in the approval of Law 31473 that allows pensioners of the Armed Forces and the National Police to receive a pension and remuneration simultaneously from the State.”

According to Espinoza, the law directly favored five of the 11 legislators who are currently pensioners of the armed institutes: José Williams, Alfredo Azurín, Jorge Montoya, Roberto Chiabra and José Cueto by allowing them to access “the receipt of salary and pension simultaneously without any restriction or limit on the total amount due to their dual status as public officials in elected positions and pensioners of the Armed Forces.”

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