Óscar del Portal would run as deputy for Lima with Carlos Espá's party

The sports journalist Oscar del Portal He would make the leap into politics as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for the SíCreo party, an organization led by journalist Carlos Espá, who will seek the presidency in the 2026 general elections.

The head of the Mexican diplomatic mission in Lima left our country on Saturday night, a week after the Government of President José Jerí ordered her to leave within a “peremptory period” in response to the asylum granted to Betssy Chávez.

According to the information published on the group’s official website, Del Portal appears on the list of pre-candidates for Lima in position number 14.

On this occasion he would not be a guest, since he has been listed as a party member since March 18, 2024, according to the Registry of Political Organizations of the National Election Jury.

So far, the communicator has not made his candidacy official nor has he publicly commented on his participation in the political group.

Sports journalist Óscar del Portal is a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies with number 10 in Metropolitan Lima with Carlos Espá’s Sí Creo party. pic.twitter.com/Mi0ai0GAgJ

— Sofía López (@SofiaLopezLl) November 9, 2025

Carlos Espá: “The State is hard with those it works with and soft with criminal organizations”

In a recent interview with Perú21, Carlos Espá pointed out that he is an “austere candidate.” “We are going step by step. And we continue to move forward. We are always saying that, if we want to be an austere president, we have to be an austere candidate. If we want to be an all-terrain president, we have to be an all-terrain candidate. And if we want to be an honest president, we have to be an honest candidate,” he said.

Furthermore, he pointed out that the fight against corruption must be directed at the leaders of criminal organizations and not against the little thief on the street.

“In Peru, the hard hand is applied to the honest worker, the merchant, the taxi driver, the motorcycle taxi driver. And the soft hand is applied to the leader of criminal organizations. It has to be the opposite. The soft hand must be applied to the honest worker to make the State adapt and thus promote formalization. Peru is becoming increasingly more informal. We are becoming more and more informal,” he added.

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