Once the parliamentary lists are defined, there are some surprises. Like PPK’s candidacy for the Senate, a launch that this column announced in May 2025. And like Vladimir Cerrón’s formula, who will not be the only candidate launched from hiding. His second vice president will be his mother, confirming that José Jerí is not the only one who co-governs with a matriarchy. In Popular Action, the six pre-candidates will share some lists, especially in the García Belaunde-Chávez axis. Alfredo Barnechea will go on his plank with Armando Villanueva and Tania Abad Jaime. Abad is a relative of the secretary general, Juan Abad, and right-hand man of Illich López, a presidential friend and ‘boy’ who manages around twenty delegates. Abad also registered the party logo with Indecopi “in case they lose the registration.” Julio Chávez has proposed that the Senate list be headed by ‘Vitocho’. And that Ricardo Burga heads the list for Deputies instead of Luis Roel. For such a decision, a renowned astrologer would have been consulted: Rubén Jungbluth. Jungbluth says he advised Alan Garcia. And the astrological chart would have defined that it is the year of cancer for Acción Popular. It will not be the first nor the last time that our political class consults forces beyond the obvious, as Hayimi and Madame Carmelí remember. In Avanza País, the Electoral Jury said that César Combina would not have met the requirements. Behind the scenes, his candidacy is believed to have been promoted by the leader of another political party.
It should be noted that not all presidential formulas correspond to a list for each chamber of Congress. The presidential plan is registered independently of the plans to the Senate, Deputies and the Andean Parliament. This is what happens in APRA, where there are 15 lists, but there is not the same number of lists. In the star party, there are also no blocked lists. Quite the opposite: APRA is applying preferential voting in the primaries and with numbers being drawn, something that no other party is doing. In the past, those who remember remember that the competition was even more extreme. The Aprista boards themselves were defined with a preferential vote. And Popular Action did the same. This dynamic allowed formulas that were apparently unnatural, but always legitimate. And that was why on one occasion the military, to divide the party, offered the government to Manuel Seoane, who had had more votes than Haya. After these primaries, the single list in each party would be consolidated. In the case of APRA, because it used preferential voting in the primaries, the final list will no longer have alternation. There is the obligation of parity, but no longer alternation.
ILLEGAL PRIMARIES
From November 1 to 7, political parties will have to register their elected lists in the ONPE using an application. But as was warned in these pages on October 5, there are illegal primaries that include convicted and disqualified candidates. Shortly before the deadline, Arturo Fernández—the mayor of the Huaco Moche—registered in the elections of his party, A Different Way. The warning was made by citizen Noemí Marissela Macahuachi, who previously denounced the inconsistencies between the primaries requested by Renovación Popular and those written in its statutes. Martín Vizcarra did the same by registering in the plan as first vice president of his brother, Mario Vizcarra. The second vice presidency of the formula falls to Judith Mendoza. In response to the complaint, the highest authority said that “it is not up to the JNE to hear challenges related to affiliation on the occasion of the primary elections,” citing article 16 of Resolution 163-2025-JNE. According to the regulations, “the electoral body in charge of the primary elections is the ONPE, as established in its regulations. However, the ONPE, in another letter, confirmed to the citizen Noemí Macahuachi that it has no jurisdiction to prevent the holding of primary elections of already disqualified candidates such as Arturo Fernández (now in hiding), Martín Vizcarra and others. A rally that only deepens the electoral chaos. What will happen when Arturo Fernández and Martín Vizcarra prevail in their respective presidential candidates? Of course, are they going to pressure the respective authorities to admit them in the electoral race? And although the JNE has already warned that those disqualified will not be able to run, both campaigns will have already used resources, causing more confusion and electoral misinformation to a campaign that is already cumbersome.
TIME FOR ACCESSORIES
The suspense will continue until December 23, when the winners of the primaries have already made their respective candidacies official. Only then will the illegal primaries fall with their respective candidates disqualified. But the accessories will appear there. Vizcarra and Fernández have designated accessory candidates in their own formulas sent to the ONPE. Perhaps because they know, deep down, that their candidacies will not be made official after passing the first filter of the primaries. Upon confession, relief of evidence.
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