The bench of People’s Action presented a project that states that to be a candidate for Congress you must have a minimum political affiliation of five years. The proposal presented by parliamentarian Darwin Espinoza Vargas maintains that the “political party affiliation must be no less than five years old.
“Any member who has been a member for at least five years by the general election deadline date may run in a primary election. For regional elections, the minimum time of affiliations is four years and for municipal elections three years.”, indicates the document of the last December 18.
The purpose of the proposal is to ensure that citizens who are going to apply for a popularly elected position have a partisan identity. That is to say, that they have a certain political trajectory that represents the ideologies of the party for which they were elected.
Along these lines, they question that currently the political forces have a history that citizens are not represented by the legislators they elect because the parties do not have the capacity to fulfill their role of mobilizing and representing voters.
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question the project
The Republic spoke with specialists, who agree that five years of militancy to be a congressional candidate does not promote political representation.
“In the case of Kenji Fujimori, how many years has the Fujimori party represented; however, when he quarreled with his sister Keiko Fujimori, a war broke out in the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who now faces an investigation, “he said. Alonso Cardenaspolitical scientist and professor at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University.
“It is not possible that there are no established policies. The crisis is generated because there is no identity with the political party they represent. Now, if they present a project, it has to go through several stages to be approved,” he said. Jose Eliceexpert in parliamentary matters.
“There is no political identity. Although the proposal has its guidelines, it is not possible to have political guidelines in five years, taking into account the political crisis that is currently being experienced, “he said. Juana Huacospecialist in Public Management from the University of Piura.
