This Sunday they develop internal elections in regional movements and political parties to define the candidates who will run in the regional and municipal elections this year. Along those lines, almost everyone has unique lists, so the results are predictable.
In Arequipa, the day takes place in 53 polling places. Thus, even one of them came the former soccer referee and again a candidate for mayor of the city, Victor Hugo Rivera Chavezby the movement Together for the Development of Arequipa.
When asked about his candidacy, he indicated that his current political project andIt is totally different from what was presented in previous processess and that, since the last elections, when he lost by 200 votes, he continued to do politics.
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According to what he said, his group has more than 7,000 affiliates. Precisely one of the surprises was the registration of the former mayor of Arequipa Alfredo Zegarra Tejadawho was the leader of the regional movement Arequipa Renace.
Zegarra He has legal proceedings pending, a conviction and is disqualified from holding public office. All this derived from his performance as provincial mayor.
Victor Hugo Rivera assured that the affiliation of the controversial former mayor was not part of any political pact and that, for him, having him among his ranks was also a surprise. “There is no political agreement here, what happens is that each candidate has been recruiting supporters. We assume that Bustamante’s candidate has affiliated him (…) It was a surprise for me too, when I got the news”, he pointed out to The Republic.
Given the processes that Zegarra has, Rivera said that, over time, it will be known if he adds it or not. “He is one more member,” he asserted.
