Special Electoral Jury – Lima Centro found that the former President of the Congress Lady Camones – censored in the office – did not violate the principle of neutrality, since a procedure was initiated a few days ago for the content of audio broadcast from Cesar Acunaleader of his party.
In a report prepared by the institution’s oversight coordinator, which was sent to Lady Camonesit is reported that the analysis of these facts presented in the audio recordings transmitted EpicenterTVthere could have been a violation of the rules of neutrality by the president of Congress.
On the Candidate’s Case Cesar AcunaThe agency argued that some important points should be taken into account:
- Neutrality is ensured by government officials, not by candidates or ordinary people.
- Assumptions of violation of the rules of neutrality are exhaustive and are included in the electoral rule.
- Sanctions for violating the neutrality provisions range from ordering a public official to refrain from said behavior, to a fine, and even sending copies of minutes to the Court of Accounts, as well as to the organization to which the offender belongs.
- Cases of exclusion of candidates differ from cases of violation of the rules of neutrality. In addition, the deadline for exclusion of candidates by the decision of the second instance expired on September 2, therefore, no candidate can be excluded, except in cases of a change in his legal status in cases established by the electoral legislation.
Recall that an audio recording was recently released in which the leader Alliance for Progress, Cesar Acunademanded the president of Congress. Lady Camones, prioritize a bill that will benefit his candidacy for the regional government of La Libertad. The incident took place during a party meeting in Lima declaring a state of emergency.
EpicenterTV published an audio recording of a meeting called Cesar Acunain which he participated, among other things, Lady Camones, congressman of this congregation and president of Congress. In the conversation, the intention of the leader of Alianza Para el Progreso to support his candidacy for the regional government of La Libertad is clear.
In the audio you can hear Cesar Acuna demand that the Board of Directors of Congress indirectly support his candidacy. For example, ask Lady Camones force the Decentralization Commission to plan and approve in the plenary session of Parliament the opinion that the locality of Alto Trujillo should become a district.
Lady Camoons releases
MP Lady Camones presented her defense before Special Electoral Jury of Central Limaafter this instance National Electoral Jury initiated a sanctions process against him for a possible violation of the rules of neutrality after the broadcast of an audio recording in which Cesar Acuna He asks him to give priority to a bill that will benefit his candidacy for governor of La Libertad.
Through an official letter sent to the Central Lima Special Electoral Jury, the former President Congress He pointed out that the meeting at which the audio was recorded took place in a private space, outside the work environment or the public sector, and without the use or support of public resources, other than that it took place after business hours. Similarly, the legislator referred to the origin of the evidence on which the trial is based and denied their involvement in propaganda activities in favor of the electoral candidate.
“The compromising evidence used in the verification process is illegal, as it was obtained in violation of the right to privacy of persons who took part in a political rally held on August 30 this year, and then distributed through a digital communication medium,” he claims.
“I did not conduct any campaigning activities in favor of any candidate, understood as activities “carried out in the course of electoral processes, the purpose of which is to persuade citizens to vote for any political organization or a candidate who is a candidate”, since the Rally was not held in an open , a public square and was not broadcast in any media for the purpose of inducing votes for or against a candidate,” he said.
Camones also said that “never” did he offer to help Cesar Acuña to approve a bill to create a county. Upper Trujillo. She clarified that the initiative was mentioned by the same Alliance for Progress leader and that she criticized that it is proposed to exempt the project from commissions so that it can be approved quickly, because instead she said that the stages of the procedure must be followed by legislative ones.
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The legislator said that economic interests are behind the project, approved at the insistence of the plenary session of the parliament. On the other hand, MP Alex Paredes of the ruling Magisterial Bloc justified his group’s support for the project’s persistence despite the government’s compliance with the law.
Source: RPP
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