LIVE | Second vote between list 1 of Lady Camones and list 3 of Esdras Medina

FRACTURED VOTES

The lists chaired by Héctor Acuña (23 votes) and Gladys Echaíz (16) were left out.

Maricarmen Alva Prieto breaks down in her farewell speech as president of the Board of Directors and gives way to the election of the new formula for Congress 2022 – 2023.

“If I have made a mistake, I sincerely apologize because I can make mistakes, but I will never give up moral principles such as honesty and the democratic conviction of defending the institution and the rule of law. I thank those who accompanied me in this management”, said Alva.

ORIGINAL NOTE

Today, from 10:00 am, the Congress will choose the new Board of Directors. Last Sunday, when the Alianza Para el Progreso, Fuerza Popular, Somos Perú and Podemos Perú bloc presented their list, it was hoped that Gladys Echaíz –candidate for the presidency of Parliament for Popular Renovation and six members of Avanza País– would reconsider. your application. However, this did not happen and on Monday, half an hour before the deadline, she registered her formula. To the surprise of some, the left was also divided into two lists.

the plate of Lady Camones it was already confirmed with Martha Moyano (FP), Digna Calle (PP) and Wilmar Elera (SP). Yesterday, around 8:00 am, the first list from the left was presented, led by Héctor Acuña (Democratic Change), José María Balcázar (Peru Bicentennial), Ruth Luque (Democratic Change) and Roberto Kamiche (Democratic Peru).

At 9:24 am the payroll of Ezra Medina (PR), Waldemar Cerrón (Free Peru), Ilich López (Popular Action) and Katy Ugarte (Teachers’ Block). Two minutes later, the Echaizaccompanied by Adriana Tudela (Avanza País), José Cueto (RP) and Alejandro Cavero (Avanza País).

The internal struggles

The division of both the opposition bloc and the ruling party and its allies on the left will not only generate complications at the time of the vote, but also internally, it has accentuated the division of the parliamentary groups.

With 12 benches and five not grouped together, the struggles for the Board of Directors caused the resignation of Juan Burgos from Avanza País, who did not tolerate that six of his colleagues allied themselves with Renovación Popular and weakened the opposition. In dialogue with Peru21, he confirmed that he will support Camones alone.

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In Popular Action, which for several months has been fragmented by ‘The Children’, they have the candidacy of one of these on list 3. It is Ilich López, who will win at least the votes of the other five ‘Children’ who they are aligned with your posture.

Five other action-populists, including Maria del Carmen Alva and Karol Paredes, will support list 1.

Meanwhile, Esdras Medina (RP) left Echaíz’s formula with 15 votes, presenting his candidacy in parallel with congressmen from the left. Initially, before the former prosecutor resigned from APP and went to RP, he sought to be the presidential candidate for his party.

The fractions behind

For the political analyst Gerardo Távara, this is a complicated scenario that has its antecedents in the votes of the last legislature.

“This difficulty in reaching agreements to present only one list or two lists is the expression of what we have seen over the last few months in Congress. We have seen votes in the plenary where the parliamentary groups that are supposedly in opposition voted together with pro-government groups. The boundaries between left and right have blurred”, he pointed to Peru21.TV.

knew that

• Last week, Echaíz and Héctor Acuña resigned from their parties to find a place in another group that does support their candidacies for the presidency of Congress.
• If the majority + 1 is not reached, the two lists with the highest support in the first round must be submitted to a second vote. According to preliminary calculations, Camones’ list would compete with Esdras Medina’s.

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