He National Election Jury (JNE) He published the regulation that contains the demands to which the candidates for the Presidency, Congress and Andean Parliament in 2026 must be scored in relation to the Affidavit of Living Sheet that must be submitted in a mandatory manner.
This document must be recorded, among other information, the firm convictions for malicious crimes, firm sentences for breach of family or food, contractual and labor obligations, or for incurring family violence.
The electoral entity informed that omitting information “gives rise to the retirement of the candidate up to 30 days before the election and copies of what is acted to the Public Ministry are referred.”
The changes
Electoral Law specialist Luis Alberto Sánchez told Peru21 that the resume that candidates must present in 2026 “will have a specific section to expressly declare the ownership of shares and participations.”
This, he continued, will avoid confusion such as the former president Martín Vizcarra, who in 2021 was excluded as a candidate for Congress by omitting the 30% participation he had in the agrotechnical company Estuquiña Sa
Sánchez also mentioned that in 2026 he will retire to a candidate “just for omission of declaring convictions.” In 2021 it was also excluded by sentences for food obligations, family violence, among others.
He noted that, unlike the previous election, now the JNE is obliged to extract information from the records of public entities. It was previously pointed out that this data should be collected “as far as possible.”
Finally, also the electoral law specialist José Naupari Wong told Peru21 that “changes product of legislative modifications make exclusions unfeasible.”
“You could only exclude a candidate for information that does not work in a public registry (from another entity) which can be accessed by interoperability. There is a problem. That is, if a candidate does not record certain information, but this information is in another record of another public entity, it will not be excluded,” he lamented.
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
- Mandatory. Candidates must indicate their work experiences, studies, career career career, resignation to other political parties and declaration of goods and income.
- Fine. Those who omit data will be liable to a sanction between 1 and 10 UIT (that is, between 5,150 and 51,500 soles, according to the current UIT).
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