JEE Callao concludes that Patricia Chirino would violate the principle of selective neutrality by engaging in proselytism.

Recent report from Callao Special Electoral Jury (JEE Callao) concludes that Avanza País Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos would have violated the rules of electoral neutrality by proselytizing for two candidates from her party and invoking her status as a parliamentarian to introduce a bill for the re-election of municipal and regional governments.

According to Report No. 147-2022-ECS-CF-JEE CALLAO-JNE, which RPP news had access, inspection coordinator, Elmer Condori Sonkocame to the conclusion that Chirinos would violate the Electoral Promotion, Publicity and Neutrality Regulations of the National Jury for Elections (JNE) because it states that “it is a violation of neutrality to act in any way that benefits or harms a particular political organization or candidate.”

Violations under investigation

The inspection report indicates that a video released last Thursday by Congressman Hamlet Echevarria in plenary session shows Chirinos in the “political activity” that was to be held on September 9, where he spoke in favor of the candidacies Angelica Rios Mayor of Ventanilla and Kluber Aliaga, the regional government of Callao.

“The congresswoman has been seen to show her support for both the candidates and their political organization, in addition to alluding to the bill she presented to re-elect the government as a congresswoman of the Republic,” the parliamentary report says. JI Callao.

In this sense, the organization argued that “although the interference (…) was not carried out in connection with the ‘official activities’ of his office,” he referred “to his status as a congressman, since among his functions is the presentation of bills.”

Recall that at some point in her speech, accompanied by both candidates, the parliamentarian said that she “went further” and presented a bill so that candidate Angelica Rios, once in the mayor’s office, could be re-elected. This bill was presented by Chirinos to Congress on June 1 of this year.

Because of this JI Callao came to the conclusion that the Patricia Chirinos in this case, she admits a violation of rights by citing her status as a civil servant or civil servant to “influence the intention of third parties to vote”, as she refers to “her action in Congress to introduce a bill to re-vote”. election of authorities.

Finally, Condori Sonko recommends that a report be submitted to the Plenum of the Electoral Jury of Callao “that it act in accordance with its powers and the electoral rules in force”.

Complaint to the Ethics Commission

On the other hand, last Friday, Popular Action MPs Elvis Vergara and Jorge Luis Flores filed a complaint with the Parliamentary Ethics Commission against the congresswomen. Patricia Chirinos, for participating in the aforementioned proselytizing event.

In the document, the parliamentarians requested that the aforementioned commission “be involved in a disciplinary process” regarding Chirinos.

Also on this day was Ombudsman asked the Central Lima Special Electoral Jury (JEE) to investigate the facts in question.

Regarding the live video in which the congresswoman Patricia Chirinos engages in proselytism and gives speeches in support of the party’s candidacies, we call on the JEE Lima Centro to investigate the facts within the framework of the rules of neutrality that all authorities must observe,” the Ombudsman said in a statement. Twitter.

They also called on the authorities and officials to “behave neutrally in the performance of their duties” so as not to “influence the formation of the vote of citizens.”

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