translated from Spanish: European Union deploys observers for legislative elections in Peru

Lima.- Just under a month from the extraordinary legislative elections in Peru, the European Union (EU) on Monday began the nationwide deployment of a national observer mission that will follow the development of unpublished elections to complete the period 2020-2021.” They will observe the electoral process, not only the election day on polling day, but the election campaign itself, the campaign on social media, media. They will see everything that leads to election day, including the work of the electoral administration,” Manuel Sánchez de Nogués, deputy head of the Electoral Observation Mission (EU EEO), told the Efe Agency.

With a long-term observation methodology, the top 50 commissioners will be deployed by teams of two to two, until they are made up, three days before the elections, a total of 100 observers, to be joined by a delegation from the European Parliament and some 25 diplomats from the embassies of the EU countries in the country.

The 50 long-term observers (PLO) of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOT) departed from Lima to all of Peru on Monday. / EFE.

Two days after polling day, the mission will release a statement with preliminary conclusions on the elections of 26 January next, as it did in its previous participations of 2001, 2011 and 2016.COYUNTURA CRITICAL POLICYThe Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) and high representative for the EU Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, stated on Monday in Brussels that the deployment of these observers is “at a political juncture for Peru”. It is the first time that early elections have been organized, in the context of heated institutional debates, including on anti-corruption reforms,” Borrell said.The Community foreign policy coordinator added that with this mission “the EU wants to make a significant contribution to this process” of the election in Peru, and reported that the head of the delegation will be the Spanish MEP Leopoldo López Gil of the European People’s Party (EPP). INUITAL ELECTIONSThe elections of 26 January next will be the first in the history of Peru in which only representatives will be elected for the Congress and not the representative of the country simultaneously. This was because on 30 September last President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress and called for new legislation after considering that Parliament, which dominated the Fujimorist opposition, had twice denied its cabinets of power. This decision generated a great debate and controversy in the country, although it was finally endorsed on 30 October by the Constitutional Court (TC), which determined the continuity of the electoral process, although next January it will have to decide whether the measure taken by Vizcarra was constitutional. A CONGRESS THAT SUPPORTS THE ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT With these new elections, the Government of Vizcarra hopes to gain the support of the Congress for its initiatives, mainly in the fight against corruption, an approach that in principle receives the consensus of the candidates for the legislation. Despite this, the Executive does not participate in the electoral contest, as Vizcarra does not have an official party and has decided not to express public support for any grouping although he has asked to vote for candidates to support the withdrawal of parliamentary immunity. The National Jury of Elections (JNE) has called 24.7 million Peruvians to choose 130 congressmen out of a total of 2,331 candidates.

The 50 observers departed today from Lima to all of Peru. / EFE.



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