About two months following Antauro Cares be released on pardon, the Commission of Constitution of the Congresschaired by the fujimorista Fernando Guerrawill debate and vote this Tuesday, October 11, on the opinion of the bills that prohibit people who were sentenced for homicide in all its forms from running for the presidency and vice-presidency of the Republic.
To this end, the initiative proposes the modification of article 17 of the Organic Law of Elections. Currently, this rule prevents those convicted, as perpetrators, for the crimes of terrorism, advocacy of terrorism, illicit drug trafficking or violation of sexual freedom from being able to run for office despite having been rehabilitated.
Now, it is intended to extend the aforementioned impediment to the illicit collusion, embezzlement, corruption of officials, homicide in its various forms, human trafficking, kidnapping and crimes once morest humanity.
This would curb the claims of the leader of the ethnocacerismo to reach the Government through elections, since he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the death of four policemen in the Andahuaylazo.
However, it is not the only lock that Parliament would seek to add. The working group he leads Fernando Guerra It also seeks that Humala Tasso cannot run for Congress, a regional government or a municipality.
Antauro convinced of reaching the Executive
The last Sunday, Antauro Humala visited the districts of La Joya and Majes, in Arequipa, where he rejected the norm “with its own name” that Congress would approve. He considered that the right promotes said law because it knows “that it is going to lose.”
“And now that they know that we are going to win the elections, because the right is convinced that they are going to lose and we are going to win, then they create a law with its own name so that we cannot run. For us, this is an attack once morest the popular will,” said the ethnocacerist.
