With the money of all Peruvians, political parties use direct public financing (FPD) to finance their electoral campaigns, hire advisors and pay their leaders’ salaries. As revealed by Final Point, the owner of Peru Libre and sentenced for corruption, Vladimir Cerrón, receives the juicy salary of S / 12,500 for the “services” provided to the pencil game.
Since 2017, the FPD has been delivered to the parties for activities such as education, training and coverage of organization expenses; however, this is a dead letter.
According to the reports sent to the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), the only beneficiaries are the heads of the parties.
Another example is that of Rosa Patricia Li Sotelo, president of Somos Perú, who has been earning S/15,000 a month for several years. She, like Cerrón, was also sentenced for corruption.
Despite this, the rule that governs the use of this monetary fund is flexible, so that each organization can consider in a different way what an “ordinary expense” means to them.
Renovación Popular, for its part, uses the S/843,000, coming from the State, to pay for the advice of former Fujimori congressman Julio Gagó.
Gagó’s coaching service costs S/226,650 to the national treasury. Although everything is officially documented, the advisor and the candidate for mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, denied what was revealed by Punto final.
“Contract? Brother, that word is not used. Renovación Popular is not a mafia,” López Aliaga said without further explanation.
This political organization also paid Andrés Hurtado’s television producer –known as ‘Chibolín’–, José Malpartida, the amount of S/207,000.
Coincidentally, López Aliaga, according to the program, recurrently attends the program that Hurtado hosts. The ONPE is in charge of supervising the proper use of these resources so that they are not diverted to private interests.
knew that
- Until July 20, Renovación Popular had not sent the ONPE accounting documents that support expenses such as advice and coaching.
- Peru Libre was entitled to S/1,075,000. So far, it does not report having used the full figure.
