Ditell Columbus: “Informed voting should work better so that not every adventurer gets into parliament”

Former congressman Fujimori Ditell Columbus announced the presentation of his book Why are we so fucked up? Notes on political and electoral reforms, in which he analyzes the political crisis that the country has plunged into and proposes solutions that he considers viable. One of the issues raised in the text is the quality of parliamentarians. About it, Columbus He specified that there is an urgent need to improve access to candidate information so that voters can have a better overview when choosing their representatives.

“The issue of informed voting needs to be better worked out so that some adventurer does not keep coming to parliament. and that it is considered that the Congress of the Republic, for example, and in general any space for political representation, is a kind of training school where one can get an internship. This is largely due to the fact that citizens demand from their representatives the quality of work, and not the quantity, ”he said in News Extension.

Similarly, he identified three issues that he considers most relevant and which, in short, explain the crisis of representation between political actors and the population.

“(There is) civic apathy regarding the political issue. Citizens, in general, reject politics and do not understand that if they do not engage in politics, then we will not give a shit anyway.. Another issue is what kind of representatives we have who are basically reckless, flippant and approach things based on the interest they may have at the moment, whether or not they have done the opposite before. Something called a consequence. There are no consistent politicians, or they are in the vast majority. Finally, a reorganization of the electoral justice system is (needed) so that there are not so many sudden changes as we have had in the last seven or eight years,” he said.