The plenary session of the National Elections Jury (JNE) finally decided to maintain the presidential candidacies of Mario Vizcarra, from Perú Primero, and Rafael López Aliaga, from Renovación Popular. Last Thursday, the electoral court left both cases to vote.
In this way, both candidates continue in the race with a view to the general elections on April 12.
Against all odds, the electoral court declared founded the appeal presented by the legal representative of Peru Primero against what the Special Electoral Jury (JEE) Lima Centro 1 had resolved.
Vizcarra’s candidacy had received three citizens’ strikes after it was learned that he recorded in his resume a final sentence against him for the crime of embezzlement, issued in 2005, in Moquegua, for which it was requested to exclude him from the electoral process in compliance with Law 30717. The JEE accepted these strikes for processing.
The aforementioned rule states that people with a conviction for corruption crimes, whether effective or suspended, are prevented from running for elected office, even if they were rehabilitated.
The former mayor of Lima also has a clear path since the electoral court declared unfounded the appeals of two citizens against the first instance decision that rejected the impeachment against the presidential candidate of Renovación Popular.
The challenge was based on an alleged irregularity in the internal process. The objectors pointed out that the RP statute provided that the elections had to be open to the general public, but that they were finally held only with the participation of party members.
In the case of Vizcarra, the decision of the JNE plenary session went in the opposite direction to what experts on electoral issues thought.
Although one of them, Fernando Rodríguez, warned Perú21 yesterday, hours before this ruling was announced, that, although the antecedents indicated that the Electoral Court had already rejected the participation of those with this impediment, the current court has little electoral experience and could have a different criterion.
The specialist recalled that even the head of the JNE, Robertro Burneo, is not an expert in electoral issues and has only been in office for a few months, and the majority of the magistrates are going through their first process.
The JNE reported that the resolution with arguments in this case will be issued soon.
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