The congressman Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu, representative of Peruvians abroadmade official his registration in the bench of Alliance for Progressafter leaving —a couple of months ago— the ranks of People’s Force. With this additionCésar Acuña’s parliamentary group is made up of 14 members for this new legislature in which they have the presidency of the Board of Directors through Eduardo Salhuana.
At the end of May, Lizardzaburu He resigned from the party and the Fuerza Popular bench. The decision was communicated by the same parliamentarian on his official social networks. After that, he chose to remain silent about his reasons for leaving Keiko Fujimori’s party.
“Today I have submitted my irrevocable resignation from the party and the Fuerza Popular bench for personal and conscientious reasons. I thank Keiko Fujimori for the opportunity to serve my country and the PEX, we will move forward!” reads the post.
Lizarzaburu was taken to Ethics for a disagreement with a Fujimori colleague
In January of this year, the Parliamentary Ethics Commission approved the final report which declared founded the complaint against Congressman Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu (Fuerza Popular), which recommends to the Plenary congressional his suspension from office and the deduction of his salary for 120 days of the legislature.
It was determined that Lizarzaburu violated the Parliamentary Code of Ethics and its regulations having expressed sexist remarksreferring to the body of Congresswoman Patricia Juárez Gallegos, during a virtual session in which she had the microphone open.
It was also considered that an attempt was made to normalise this type of inappropriate and derogatory expressions that come from the sexist community and that lead to discrimination and inequality.
It was also stated that the accused congressman lied when he said that he had apologized to his colleague Patricia Juárez and that they had left on good terms. In addition, he tried to normalize and trivialize sexist expressions and that his conduct has damaged the image of Congress.
After Lizarzaburu returned to his parliamentary activities, there was a break with his bench and this was evident when Patricia Juarez, victim of assaultleft the chamber upon the arrival of her colleague: “It is an uncomfortable situation. Congressman Lizarzaburu is just joining the activities of the Plenary and, obviously, I felt uncomfortable that he is present. I could not remain in the place and that is why I left,” she declared to Canal N. Go to Publish
