Overview
- Atencio’s List 1 won the coalition’s internal selection held Saturday, defeating the slate led by anthropologist Vicente Alanoca of Nuevo Perú.
- He steps in for ex-congressman Guillermo Bermejo, who received a 15-year prison sentence for affiliation with Sendero Luminoso in the VRAEM; Atencio had served as his defense lawyer.
- The presidential formula pairs Atencio with Elena Rivera and Alberto Quintanilla as vice-presidential nominees within the Venceremos alliance.
- The designation now moves to an official delegates’ vote on December 7 under the National Jury of Elections timetable.
- Alanoca criticized the outcome on Facebook, calling it a “classic, racist and odious” way of doing politics, underscoring friction inside the alliance.