Five months after Regional and Municipal Elections of 2022 which will take place on October 2, citizens will be able to know the background of all the candidates who will participate in the electoral process, and will also have access to a complaints mailbox in case they know of any irregularity related to the candidates for mayor and regional governments.
This was announced by the executive director of the Private Anti-Corruption Council Eduardo Herrera, who will promote the Kuskachay Electoral project (a Quechua word that means “do justice”), a platform that will seek to make information related to the upcoming elections transparent in order to avoid future officials immersed in acts of corruption and strengthen the principles of democracy through of an informed vote.
For this, the lawyer explained that they will put into operation the Kuskachay website to spread a national anti-corruption campaign, share information and materials generated in the development of the project, cases reported in the media and have the interaction of users and reception of citizen complaints.
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The page will also be enriched through a process of data collection, investigation and verification of data supported with digital tools, and the extraction of automated databases through a web algorithm. scraping.
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In order to identify candidates with ethical and legal questions and prevent applicants with a history of corruption from accessing the public function and occupying positions of authority, Electoral Kuskachay will develop a nationwide campaign, around 26 Regions, 55 Provinces and 84 districts. The fields of action include Áncash, Apurímac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, CajamarcaCusco, Huancavelica, Huanuco, Ica, JuninLa Libertad, Lima, Moquegua, Pasco, Piura and Puno.
“We are going to analyze investigations of the different profiles based on a certain behavior, which is aimed at determining whether or not there is a history of corruption and poor exercise of public function, we are going to collect that information, order it and later publish it so that it can be freely accessible”, declared Herrera to RPP.
Keep in mind
- In 2020, Peru lost around S/ 22,000 million a year due to corruption.
- During 2021, nearly 8,000 officials were processed out of the more than 45,000 cases pending in the justice system.
