Overview
- Two citizen complaints were filed and admitted by JEE Lima Centro challenging López Aliaga’s registration as first regidor on the grounds that a post-renunciation list change could let him return immediately to the mayoralty.
- The JEE gave López Aliaga a one-day deadline on Saturday, August 22, to submit written descargos in the case that invokes Article 194 of the Constitution, which bars immediate re-election of mayors.
- Petitioners cite a recent JEE Morropón ruling of August 20 that excluded a candidate in a similar post-renunciation configuration and ask Lima Centro to apply the same legal reasoning.
- The JEE decision can be reviewed by the JNE Plenary and faces an accelerated timetable with a probable JNE resolution deadline around August 23 and municipal elections set for October 4.
- An exclusion would reshape Lima’s race because López Aliaga is polling strongly, and the complaints — one filed by an Avanza País affiliate — raise both constitutional and abuse-of-rights (Article 103) arguments about list reconfiguration.