Overview
- The Jurado Nacional de Elecciones announced Friday that any first regidor who served as mayor in the immediately prior term will not be proclaimed or receive credentials to assume a mayoralty for 2027–2030.
- The rule, applied first to a block of 427 cases, forces corrected proclamations in six jurisdictions and will be followed by a second resolution covering more than 600 cases as part of an overall review of about 1,900 proclamations this month.
- If the criterion is applied in Lima, Rafael López Aliaga would be barred from receiving mayoral credentials and the next eligible regidora on Renovación Popular’s list, Jeanette Alonzo, would be the presumptive mayor.
- Renovación Popular has filed requests to inhibit and recuse JNE members and affected candidates may seek constitutional relief through amparo at the Tribunal Constitucional, since JNE plenary rulings are final inside the electoral system.
- Beyond immediate replacements, the JNE said those who would assume a mayoralty by forbidden succession will be barred from holding the post from 2027 onward and from running for mayor in 2030, a change that could prompt legal challenges and alter local power balances.