Overview
- Lawyer Ronald Atencio won the alliance’s presidential nod over anthropologist Vicente Alanoca in an internal assembly held last week.
- Reports from the assembly say votes from Patria Roja and Unidad Popular, invited despite lacking JNE registration, tipped the result in Atencio’s favor.
- Verónika Mendoza, who had named Alanoca as her standard-bearer in May, now publicly supports Atencio and appeared with him in a unity photo.
- Alanoca denounced the process as “the classic, racist and hateful way of doing politics” and vowed to keep touring the country.
- Atencio is presented as the replacement for Guillermo Bermejo—convicted for affiliation to terrorism—whose past anti-democratic audio is referenced in coverage, and Bermejo welcomed Mendoza’s support.