The room of National Election Jury revoked the Provincial Council of Trujillo 087-2024-MPT and confirmed the vacancy of César Arturo Fernández Bazán as mayor of Trujillo (La Libertad). This is due to having a consented or enforceable sentence for an intentional crime, according to paragraph 6 of article 22 of the Organic Law of Municipalities.
The JNE page published the statement of the highest interpreters of the electoral law, which is to declare the appeal filed by the Trujillo lawyer Carlos Calderón founded.
In this, it is maintained that due to Fernández’s legal situation, the vacancy corresponded to him and Calderón presented as attached resolution 60-2024, which annuls resolution 55-2024 in which the rehabilitation of Arturo Fernández for his crime of defamation is declared. aggravated and declared it as not pronounced.
With this, it was demonstrated that the sentence against Fernández is consented or executory, and that it is also res judicata, so it was appropriate that the vacancy of the questioned authority be declared.
Who will be the mayor of Trujillo?
With the decision of the JNE, the uncertainty that existed in the provincial council ends, because it was not known if the questioned mayor was going to return to sit in the municipal seat, which he arrived after winning the last elections with the Somos Perú party.
The first councilor Mario Reyna Rodríguez, who has been fulfilling the duties of interim mayor, will be the one who stays until the end of the mayoral term in 2026, replacing the vacant mayoral authority, who is a fugitive from justice after having been declared a prisoner. contumacious due to other pending defamation proceedings.
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