Crisis in the APRA: more than 11 thousand affiliates were expelled after internal administrative problems

APRATES Rows do not cross their best moment. Recently, different militants, including Javier Velásquez Quesquénformer prime minister during the last government of Alan Garciaand Pilar Noresformer first lady in that same management, announced their disregarding the party founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre. According to reports, more than 11 thousand affiliates to the star party have stopped appearing in the official register due to administrative problems.

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The versions of this fact are diverse: while some members ensure that the disregard responds to a disposition of the National Jury of Elections (JNE) After detecting irregularities, others argue that it is a maneuver for political purposes.

The origin of these massive disregards dates back several years, when a group of leaders of the Peruvian APRISTA Party was removed from Political Commissionbeing under the leadership of former congressman and militant aprista Mauricio Mulder. This group accredited, through a elected legal person, before the JNE the registration of 15 thousand new militants. Of that total, 11 thousand chips were validated and 4,000 observed, as some Apristas militants pointed out.

Given this situation, the leaders retired from the Political Commission They requested at Judicial Branch Your replacement, and the ruling was favorable. According to sources from the party close to The RepublicThis would have led the JNE to ignore the replacements and, consequently, to question all the inscriptions made by the designated person during that period. These same sources denounced that these processes sought to manipulate the register in an authoritarian way, favoring a small group of relatives and limiting the participation of other militants in the internal life of the party.

Above: VELASQUEZ QUESQUÉN MILITANCE REGISTRATION | Below: Pilar militancy record. Both ceased to be militants of the APRA party.

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Enrique Valderramaone of the militants retired from the Political Commission And presidential candidate of the star party, denied that these measures have a political intention. He assured that the aprista leaders who knew about these irregularities allowed the situation to be maintained:

“I sympathize with all the apristas that at the national level were registered in good faith. (…) This matter is caused by this bad action of a process that lasted two years and that, in July of 2023, it was clearly noticed that all the seats that this Personero could register were irregular,” he said in an interview.

For its part, the aforementioned Javier Velásquez Quesquénalso vocated as a possible presidential candidate of the party, he said through his social networks that the disregards responded to a partial decision that violated the political rights of the militants: “This procedure will face it defending my right and that of thousands of citizens to my political militancy. My priority is that this illegal decision is corrected and that thousands of people and I return to the party. A political party, “he said.