Overview
- The Parliamentary Ethics Commission voted to start an indagación against Deputy Christian Aranda, backing report Expediente N.° 002-2026-2027/CEP-CD with four votes in favor, zero against and two abstentions.
- The case stems from a post Aranda made on X that published an oficio to the Hospital Regional Guillermo Díaz de la Vega in Abancay, which critics say showed the name and clinical details of a woman who sought a therapeutic abortion.
- Aranda has said he will present his formal descargos to the commission, will keep the file confidential for now and argues his intent was fiscalización to check legal and clinical protocol compliance rather than to obtain private medical data.
- The commission also unanimously launched a separate ethics inquiry against Deputy Milagros Santana Vera over a video that reportedly shows her threatening a municipal worker, showing the panel is moving multiple disciplinary cases forward.
- The probe raises wider questions about legal protections for medical confidentiality, how deputies use social media to publicize oversight, and the role of party dynamics in how ethics complaints proceed in the Cámara de Diputados.