Overview
- The electoral court’s plenary heard both appeals on January 15 and took the matters under deliberation, with decisions expected in the coming days.
- Mario Vizcarra was excluded by JEE Lima Centro 1 under Law 30717 due to a 2005 peculado conviction that challengers say triggers a candidacy ban.
- Vizcarra’s defense cited multiple Constitutional Tribunal decisions and urged diffuse control to set aside the ban as applied to rehabilitated individuals, while opponents said those rulings are limited to specific amparo cases.
- In Rafael López Aliaga’s case, an appeal contends Renovación Popular breached its statute by running internal primaries only with militants rather than opening them to the public.
- That appeal was rejected in first instance by JEE Lima Centro 1, and the JNE review comes after López Aliaga resigned as Lima mayor to pursue the presidency.