The prestigious Peruvian constitutional lawyer Gonzalo Ortiz de Zevallos has verified the existence of electoral fraud in this second round of elections in Peru. If no one remedies it within two weeks, Pedro Castillo will be inaugurated as president of the nation. An investiture that Ortiz de Zevallos has already declared “null and void if the lawsuits presented are not resolved before.”
The lawyer accuses of participation in the fraud Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler, President of the Republic of Peru, Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia, President of the Council of Ministers, Jorge Luis Salas Arenas, President of the National Elections Jury, Jorge Armando Rodríguez Vélez and Jovián Valentín Sanjinez Salazar, members of the National Jury of Elections of Peru.
The Office of the Attorney General, a body similar to our Office of the Attorney General of the State, has already confirmed Gonzalo Ortiz de Zevallos, the receipt of complaints.
As explained by the own Gonzalo Ortiz de Zevallos to OKDIARIO, com it is verified, with the corresponding factual and legal grounds, the following: «Faced with the undeniable reality of the existence of a real contest of crimes committed by a plurality of agents, destined to undermine the popular will, that is, they have like motu criminis, to attempt against the popular will, in the modality of altering the result of an election or of making it impossible to carry out the scrutiny, crime, this, typified in article 359.5 of the Penal Code ”.
For these facts Ortiz de Zevallos has filed a complaint against the president Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler, which he accuses of “instigating the commission of the aforementioned crime against the popular will, in the indicated modality of altering the result of an election or of making it impossible to carry out the scrutiny, crime, this, typified in article 359, subsection (5), of the Penal Code; and (b) For the crime of illegal certifying a process in process before the jurisdictional body, typified in article 410 of the Penal Code ”.
In the case of the president of the Council of Ministers, Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia, the crimes indicated by the lawyer would be those of “instigating the commission of the aforementioned crime against the popular will, in the indicated modality of altering the result of an election or of making it impossible to carry out the scrutiny and for the aforementioned crime of illegal certifying a process in process before the court ”.
About Jorge Luis Salas Arenas, president of the National Jury of Elections, of Jorge Armando Rodríguez Vélez and of Jovián Valentín Sanjinez Salazar, members of the National Jury of Elections, are accused in the complaint of «following crimes, continued and with the aggravating circumstances of habituality and of being committed in their capacity as public officials: For the respective crimes against the popular will, in the modality of alteration of the result of an election or of making it impossible to carry out the scrutiny, typified in article 359, subsection (5), of the Penal Code “, they are also accused of” crimes of obstruction of justice, typified in article 409-A of the Penal Code, in the modality of preventing or hindering the contribution and performance of the evidence offered by the party that considers itself injured and that would allow the Plenary of the National Elections Jury to verify the existence of massive electoral fraud [ello, contra la inocultable obtención de un beneficio personal indebido de carácter intangible: el reconocimiento y la promoción indebidos, por parte de un nuevo gobierno proclamado de manera ilegítima e inconstitucional, con base en las graves acciones y omisiones en que están incurriendo esos denunciados miembros del Pleno del Jurado Nacional de Elecciones]»,
Finally, these Peruvian officials are also accused of the crimes of “denial of justice in the form of refusal to administer justice, typified in article 422 of the Penal Code, under the pretext of defect or deficiency of the law (materialized, in the present electoral case based on the argument, publicly and explicitly wielded by Jorge Luis Salas Arenas, president of the National Elections Jury, in the sense that the electoral legislation “is not designed” so that the Jury can process such an important number of challenges based on the existence of massive fraud) and malfeasance, typified in article 418 of the Penal Code, as a consequence of the non-application of the constitutional precept contained in article 51 of the Political Constitution “, these are also accused by” the respective improper omissions, typified by article 13 of the Penal Code ”.
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