The mayor of Lima, Renzo Reggiardo announced that he will not participate in any public office in future elections since, in his opinion, there are no guarantees of a transparent electoral process and because he will not allow the legal actions he is taking against him to be misinterpreted. National Election Jury (JNE).
“I want to publicly announce that I will not run for any elected office under the current conditions. I make this decision because I consider that today there are no necessary guarantees to participate in a transparent and impartial process, but also because I will not allow the easy and recurring argument to be used that these legal actions respond to electoral interests or personal ambitions,” said.
“Not all Peruvians follow that pattern, there are citizens who understand public service as a moral duty and not as a business,” he added.
On the other hand, the presentation of a jurisdictional claim before the Constitutional Courta measure that is added to the announced amparo action filed before the Judiciary against the resolution of the Plenary Session of the National Elections Jury of April 23 in which is announced that there will be no complementary elections in Metropolitan Lima.
“One of those (citizen) rights is to vote in fair and transparent impartial conditions. Democracy cannot be sustained on manipulated rules, questioned arbitrators or institutions subject to political interests. When confidence is lost in the neutrality of those who must guarantee clean elections, what is at risk is not a candidacy, but the very legitimacy of the democratic system,” he said.
At the conference, Raúl Fernández, head of the general office of Legal Affairs of the Municipality of Limaspoke on behalf of the former magistrate Genaro Eto Cruzwho acts as a lawyer for the commune in the constitutional aspect.
Fernández announced that this same Monday, April 4, they would be presenting this “competence action” since the violation of the Municipality’s powers is proven.
“Today we must be presenting this jurisdictional action for undermining constitutional powers, which is a power given by the Constitutional Court in ruling 004-2004, a variant of a jurisdictional action. The municipality is demonstrating that this inaction, this non-application of this constitutional guarantee of the right to vote, harms and undermines municipal powers linked to social peace, the ornament that the historic center deserves,” he argued.
Likewise, he indicated that the commune’s legal team is evaluating whether to file precautionary measures, although said procedure is still being evaluated.
