While justice tries to put the necessary locks to close the passage to those who, with their hate and violence discourse, seek to put democracy at risk, we can Peru, the group of José Luna Gálvezintends, smuggled, change the rules of the game and favor those who do not deserve a space in our democracy.
The most populist bench in Congress has just presented a bill so that the electoral parties and alliances that will participate in the next 2026 elections can freely designate, without internal elections in between, that is, by finger, to their candidate for the Presidency of the Republic or one of the vice presidencies.
But there is not everything left. The proposal presented last Wednesday 19 by Congressman Juan Burgos proposes that he is privileged in the presidential plate does not need to be affiliated with the group and participate as a guest. This opens the doors for people like Antauro Humala, sentenced by the murder of four police officers and without the possibility of participating in the elections of next year, may be present in the electoral process of 2026.
The project – which we can in the document presented “strengthens the political right to be elected” – intends Congress, regardless of whether they are affiliated or not.
The proposal of Podemos Peru proposes to accommodate the terms of affiliation for those who wish to apply for positions of popular election, which would grant the most margin to the parties to incorporate external applicants to their lists.
If the norm is approved, the next president may not be affiliated with the party for which he competes, which would substantially modify the rules of internal democracy in political organizations.
The project was already referred to the Constitution Commission, where the Gálvez Luna bench has three representatives. To realize nonsense size, the norm would have to be promulgated before April 12, the day when President Dina Boluarte calls the general elections. Hopefully not.
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