‘Porky’ López Aliaga is not the first, nor by any means the only one, to use the trick of running for first councilor and waiting for the mayoral candidate to resign, to take their place by magic, bypassing the constitutional prohibition of re-election.
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There are dozens across the country, including in the most populous district of Peru, San Juan de Lurigancho, whose mayor Jesús Maldonado had his 23-year-old nephew run and the young man has already resigned. Roberto Burneo, the president of the JNE, inherited precedents approved during Jorge Salas Arenas’ administration, but does nothing about their proliferation! He recognizes the apparent legality of the trick without reflecting on an electoral principle that should be dear and essential to him: letting cheaters get away with it affects the rights of other candidates and therefore introduces a flaw in the elections of which he should be a jealous guardian.
But our character basking in the spotlight is not Burneo but Porky or, to use a neutral acronym, RLA. RLA is slowly cooking, first of all, due to the accumulation of unfulfilled promises and fulfilled deceptions (he said he would not leave the mayor’s office to run for president, ran for the senate without intention of being a senator, said Luis Rubio was the mayoral candidate and not an electoral frontman who resigns without solid arguments, confirming the suspicions raised about him since he appeared on the scene).
Side note: the presumption is increasingly strengthened that the current interim mayor, Renzo Reggiardo, resigned from running, contrary to what had been rumored within Renovación Popular (RP), because he feared suffering the same fate and embarrassment as Rubio.
RLA is toasted in the spotlight this week for another reason, this time more amusing than irritating: a laudatory biography of Rafael called “My Rooster is the Pig,” written by Francisco de Piérola, appeared, financed with the party’s public funds (well, now they say those funds are also fed with donations from the party leader, so the expenditure is justified).
It is a colloquial tribute, with the humor that ‘Porky’ cultivates for his fans and contains paragraphs that have gone viral spontaneously because they exalt the homophilia that could arise between a sexually active young man and a mature and chaste one, with mentions of RLA’s religious vocation and anecdotes intended to be harmless about his shamelessness at the sound of his urination.
The networks not only seek sexual connotations in this but also political scatological ones: Porky is peeing on the law.
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We are left with the candidate whose door to the metropolitan mayor’s office reopens when the door to the Government Palace closed and he despised the senate’s. Will he cross it for the second time? The votes will decide, as Burneo has already washed his hands in the name of the JNE.
There are two scenarios: he wins or he loses. And there is a theory for each. If he wins, it would confirm that the vast majority of Limeños are attracted to voting for someone who cultivates the image of fighting against the state monster that stops their trains and works, who fraudulently made him lose the presidency, although at least he could win the toll battle. If he loses, it would confirm that the first-round defeat, the senate deception, the public overexposure of spitting to the sky and peeing against the wind, eroded his charisma.
RLA is not a loser. For that, his enemies would have to wait a long time and more defeats, beyond what happens in the municipal elections on October 4.
If he loses, the municipal rope will make him have a hard time managing his resignation to be just another councilor of a foreign mayor. But he will not have lost the blue goat, that of the party and its two benches. With them, he can pressure the government, ally with the left bloc when it suits him, fulfill agendas, obtain perks, and make statements that drive many crazy.
Sometimes he could be the swing vote instead of the Good Government Party and other times a tougher opponent than Juntos Por el Perú. His tricks, those that put him in the spotlight this week, show that when negotiating, he can relax scruples and phobias. His next chapters hold surprises and several epithets.
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