They acknowledge that there was a typing error, but that this is not a reason to cross out a candidacy. Several days after a citizen filed an appeal against the nomination of José Williams, of Avanza País, the secretary of that political group, Armando Barrantes, admitted that there was a typing error in the income resume of his candidate presented to the National Elections Jury (JNE). Barrantes blamed his party’s person in charge of entering the data for this “material error.”
The leader points out that the party accepted its mistake, an error that could end up excluding this group from the electoral race.
“It was a mistake by the data entry clerk. There were two aspects to declare, one was the salary and the other was the allocations given by Congress, and the party made a mistake and that has been accepted, but that is not a reason for fault,” said the Avanza País leader.
Barrantes stressed that the electoral regulations allow this type of inaccuracies to be corrected and that the process to correct the information has already been initiated before the Jury.
“It is not a cause for a fault or for removal from the race. It is a material error that is already in the process of correction, it has already been presented to the Jury so that the issue can be corrected,” he indicated.
For the secretary of Avanza País, the accusation presented seeks to cause confusion and uncertainty in the electorate and make people believe that there are problems in the party, and he trusts that the electoral authorities will end up declaring this appeal unfounded.
The objection against the presidential candidacy of José Williams was filed on January 1 by citizen Carlos Alonso Javier Guevara alleging serious violations of electoral regulations and the statutes of the political organization in the process of internal democracy.
According to the complainant, Williams failed to comply with his duty to truthfully declare in his resume the information about his income as a congressman for the year 2024.
In the file, the complainant details that the Affidavit of the presidential candidate uploaded to the Electoral Platform records the amount of 187 thousand soles as annual income for his parliamentary work, a figure that differs from those declared by legislators from his own bench who will also participate in the electoral process.
Among these, he points out the reports declared by Adriana Tudela, who is a member of the Avanza País presidential team along with Williams, in which she records 426,122.93 soles as income received in 2024 as a congressman.
In response to this accusation, Avanza País filed a complaint against Javier Guevara for alleged money laundering and demanded that the Prosecutor’s Office investigate the origin of the money with which the citizen paid the fee to present the appeal for infringement before the JEE of Lima Centro 1.
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