Overview
- Somos Perú president Patricia Li announced Díaz’s precandidacy on Facebook after a Lima lunch, sharing photos with Manuel Gustavo Montoya Chávez, Emma Damián and Alexis Bryan Atencio Díaz.
- Díaz reshared the post acknowledging the meeting, and her bid remains a party-level precandidacy pending formal nomination and electoral registration.
- She said her top legislative priority would be citizen security and indicated she holds the No. 10 spot on the party’s preliminary list, according to Caretas.
- Media reports note she meets legal eligibility requirements to run, including age 62 and Peruvian birth with active suffrage rights.
- Coverage recalls her 1995–2000 congressional term and a 2009 suspended sentence for active bribery linked to Vladimiro Montesinos; Díaz says she has paid reparations and that her cases are closed.