Drastic measures. On the night of Wednesday, August 3, the general secretary of Acción Popular, Edmundo del Águila, announced the decision to expel from the party the six congressmen who had been pointed out by lobbyist Karelim López as being part of a known group. as “The Children”.
“The National Plenary of Popular Action agrees to expel from our political organization Acción Popular and consequently remove from the Register of Affiliates the following militants: Ilich Fredy López Ureña, Jhaec Darwin Espinoza Vargas, Jorge Luis Flores Ancachi, Elvis Hernán Vergara Mendoza, Juan Carlos Mori Celis and Raúl Felipe Doroteo Carbajo”, can be read in the resolution issued by AP.
The main cause for the expulsion of the so-called “Children”, according to what was expressed by Acción Popular, is the preservation of the ethical and moral values on which the organization is based, as well as the political thought of its leader. founder, Fernando Belaunde Terry.
As explained in the statement, upon learning of the news that members of the Popular Action caucus would have been taking part in alleged irregularities and malicious acts, the party’s National Disciplinary Secretariat summoned the congressmen involved to make a statement. However, none of them showed up for the citations, so they were declared “in absentia.”
Likewise, among the reasons given by the organization founded by the late former president to agree on the expulsion of these parliamentarians is their behavior in plenary and the political forms adopted by them when voting on the different projects presented in the Legislative, far from the political line of Popular Action and closer to the government’s positions of interest.
“In the different votes carried out in the Congress of the Republic, it has been shown that the aforementioned congressmen have voted in favor of the government and in contradiction with the well-known political line of Popular Action; misconduct that harms our political organization by going against its ethical, moral and political principles, contravening the example of political cleanliness and conduct of our founder, Fernando Belaúnde Terry”, was expressed from the group.
