Popular Action faces an internal crisis where militants denounce the alleged alteration of delegates and the appearance of an audio that compromises the head of the National Electoral Committee. According to Punto Final, the crisis broke out while the lists of pre-candidates for the elections were being chosen. elections 2026a process that keeps facing Alfredo Barnechea and Julio Chavez.
According to the journalistic investigation, the questions arose after the internal elections on November 30. Elected delegates would have been replaced by other names that do not match the original minutes. The situation worsened when Chávez denounced the absence of Cinthia Pajuelo, president of the electoral committee, who, he assured, did not send the official list of representatives to the ONPE.
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The report also released an audio in which Pajuelo allegedly offers a position in Congress in exchange for removing a delegate from a polling station. The recording mentions figures associated with the campaign Alfredo Barnecheawhich generated new frictions within the lampa party.
Added to these facts is a report from the National Elections Jury that detects discrepancies between the list of delegates registered by the ONPE and sent by the Popular Action electoral committee. The differences raise doubts about the legitimacy of the process and deepen internal tension.
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Popular Action: militants denounce impersonation of delegates
According to Punto Final, activists from regions such as Huancavelica denounced that people who did not win the internal elections appeared as delegates enabled to vote. The claim reached Lima, where a group demanded that the result of last November 30 be respected.
Julio Chávez’s entourage accused the sector related to Juan José Abad – linked to the candidacy of Alfredo Barnechea – of introducing voters outside the registry to alter the election of candidates.
Audio accuses the president of the national Popular Action committee of negotiating the impersonation of delegates
The activist John Plasencia gave Punto Final a recording that he made on November 28. In it, the voice attributed to Cinthia Pajuelo, president of the National Popular Action Committee, proposes to remove his wife from a voting station in exchange for a job for S/ 2,000 in the office of Congressman Ilich López.
In dialogue with Latina Noticias, Pajuelo denied having offered benefits or interfering in the vote. However, he avoided explaining the variations detected between the list sent to the ONPE and the information reviewed by the JNE.
